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Hope, optimism replaces fear as Govt outlines path ahead

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We are likely to see the Government's new slogan "Think safe, think outdoors" plastered on billboards and newspaper ads and repeated mantra-like by politicians and policy makers over the coming weeks and months.

It's a good slogan for the stage of recovery we are now entering given the risks that greater levels of economic and social engagement entail for increased transmissibility of Covid-19.

Practically all cases of Covid-19 in Ireland now are the B117 variant of the virus first identified in the UK. We knew nothing about B117 in late November which was the last time Covid restrictions were eased.

We know a lot more now. It is 70% more transmissible than the original strain of the virus. It makes people more sick. A person is 1.7 times

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