The Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Emergencies Programme has said there has been an ongoing shift in the disease being detected in younger adults.
Dr Mike Ryan said the shift into the disease being detected in the younger population is probably because they are the ones who came back into society more quickly - returning to work and college.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, Dr Ryan said that although younger people may suffer a less severe version of the disease, it is not guaranteed that this will be the case and that there is always the risk of passing it to older populations.
If the disease is passed onto older generations again, he said, the hospitals will refill and "this is not something we want to
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