A leading Immunologist has played down fears of a summer wave of Covid-19.
It comes after the number of people in hospital who tested positive for the virus rose to 360 yesterday, 23 of whom are in intensive care.
Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Kingston Mills, says however another major surge of Covid-19 this summer is unlikely:
"It's not inevitable that we know that there won't be. There's certainly going to be an increasing number of cases, that's happening in the UK as well. It's probably down to the emergence of the BA4 and BA5 variants, which are a further mutation of the Omicron variants, but they're quite different, more transmissible and more likely to evade immunity generated with the vaccines or with previous infection even with Omicron."
