5,622 new cases confirmed after Dr Tony Holohan's grim Christmas warning

A total of 5,622 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Ireland, while 487 patients are currently being treated in hospital.It comes after Ireland was hit by a fresh wave of restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19.

The night-time economy is taking the biggest hit as part of the Government’s desperate battle to keep the mutant variant Omicron from taking hold. The letter, seen by the Irish Mirror, states: “Typically, December and the Christmas/New Year period is a time of higher levels of socialisation. “If effective social contact increases to the levels seen in December 2020, even for a short period, under optimistic scenarios with high infection-induced immunity cases approach 6,000 to 8,000 per day at the peak of a prolonged wave, and more pessimistically, if infection-induced immunity is low, or evaded by omicron, a very large surge is possible, peaking at 8,000-15,000 cases per day at peak.

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