Minister for Health Simon Harris has told the Dáil that the reproductive rate for the Covid-19 virus in Ireland has fallen again and that the average person who gets infected now will pass the virus on to no more than one other person at most.
The reproductive rate of the virus, the minister said, is down now to between 0.5 and 1, from 0.7 to 1 just one week ago according to the mathematical model of the pandemic used to inform the workings of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).
The minister also revealed that the number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 infections has fallen by 60% since the start of April.