The letter sent from the Chief Medical Officer to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly following a NPHET meeting on Monday has been published in full
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Mr Martin did not give an exact date when eating and drinking indoors will be allowed to resume, stating that NPHET's advice is that the return to indoor hospitality should be limited to those who are fully vaccinated and those who have recovered from Covid. That "stark" advice has now been published in its entirety by the Department of Health, with grim projections laid bare by health officials on what would happen if restrictions were lifted on July 5 as planned.
He added that the extent to which people will require hospitalisation as a result of contracting the virus in the coming weeks is uncertain. "The difference in vaccine effectiveness in preventing infection means that as Delta comes to dominate there is a fraction of the population with only one dose of vaccine who are at increased risk of becoming infected, of transmitting that infection to others, leading to a surge of disease in an incompletely protected cohort," he said.
"The infections occur largely in the young, unvaccinated population, but as the force of infection grows, a significant number of infections also occur in older, vaccinated people."
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