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A further 1,725 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the State on Sunday.
There were 473 people in hospital with the virus as of this morning, with 97 of those in intensive care (ICU).
Pressure created by the high level of coronavirus cases and increased respiratory illnesses on the health system has forced a number of hospitals to cease or cut back elective care, HSE chief executive Paul Reid said on Saturday.
Mr Reid said hospitals were facing huge demands with emergency care cases also going up as rising numbers of people presented for delayed care for Covid-19.
He said there was huge pressure on hospitals and this was forcing a number of them “to take decisions to cease elective care for some points of time – maybe not completely”.
The country needs to be “on top of booster vaccines” and the programme should be “easy and quick” for people, Professor Jack Lambert, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mater and UCD School of Medicine has said.
Prof Lambert said nursing home residents, the immunocompromised and healthcare workers should all receive Covid-19 booster vaccinations.
“We need to be on top of booster vaccines and make it easy and make it quick and we’ve done nothing easy and we’ve done nothing quick in this country with any of the Covid strategies that we’ve undertaken over the last 19 months,” he told RTÉ Radio’s Brendan O’Connor show on Sunday.
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He said vaccination “helps tremendously” against the disease but that it is not eliminating Covid, adding “we’ve known this for months”.
Prof Lambert also said that it is important to keep schools open safely and that children shouldn’t wear masks in the classroom at primary level, but advised they should in certain situations such as using public transport, car pooling and going to the bathroom in school.
He said he believed Covid-19 numbers will “of course” rise over the coming weeks as further restrictions were loosened on Friday.
“Even if Covid numbers do go up, lockdown is not a solution as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “Having ICU beds that are under resourced in Ireland for the last 10 years, that’s not an excuse for lockdown. It’s a good reason for us to do everything right and really emphasise that to the Irish public.”
Prof Lambert said that nightclubs should have opened up in July and August and been “prepared appropriately for it, not waited until October and November when winter is coming with all the other respiratory illnesses”.
“I think we should open up, but open up safely with all of the Covid mitigating strategies that are part of that - washing hands, the Covid vaccine pass, masks in appropriate situations,” he added.