Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Chief Medical Officer has given his strongest indication yet that Covid-19 restrictions won't be lifted, as planned, next Tuesday.
The National Public Health Emergency Team is due to advise government tomorrow about whether any measures can be eased.
Dr. Tony Holohan said as things stand, he wouldn't be advising anything be lifted next week.
31 more people with Covid-19 have died, bringing the death toll to 1,190, while we now have over 20,000 confirmed cases.
19 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Galway, bringing the county's total to 351.
The worry among the doctors in charge is that the numbers in intensive care and hospital beds is just too high to ease restrictions and the healthcare system would come under severe pressure if the number of infections rose quickly.
