The Minister for Health has said Ireland's approach to tackling Covid-19 is the "right strategy" that is "going to save lives".
Simon Harris said it is important for the Irish people, who are hurting and who are making sacrifices, to know this. Minister Harris cited modelling done by Professor Philip Nolan, which projected that this coming Sunday alone, there would have been 120,000 new cases of the virus, if no restrictive measures had been introduced.
If just partial mitigation had been done, by the end of May, the modelling suggested we would see around 70,000 new cases on one day.
Mr Harris said that either of those scenarios would have been "utterly devastating for our country" and would have resulted in "very significant" numbers