The variant makes up a 'significant proportion' of the 644 Covid cases in hospital in the past week, Dr Colm Henry said.
A NEW STRAIN of Covid-19 called the Eris variant is more transmissible than other variants seen in Ireland but hasn’t lead to more hospital admissions, the HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer, Dr Colm Henry, said today.
“We now have a much more robust population immunity from both from natural infection and from vaccination, so that should stand to our advantage.” He added that it was essential to get vaccinated once the HSE’s Covid-19 vaccine programme resumes in autumn in order to prevent severe overcrowding in hospitals in winter, as was the case in previous years.
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