An infectious disease specialist says this Easter Weekend can’t be our Cheltenham.
There are now just over 6,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus here and 235 people have lost their lives.
Gardai will be enforcing emergency legislation over the next few days to ensure people comply with the 2km and social distancing rules.
Dr Paddy Mallon, from St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, says it’s vital people stick to restrictions this weekend.
"If everyone in the population centres in the east that are very heavily infected with coronavirus, if they all decide to take off for the weekend, then this weekend will be our Cheltenham, and we'll be sitting in two weeks with an absolute disaster.
"But if everyone just sits tight we could be sitting here this time next week seeing the rates of hospitalisations and the rates of new infections really starting to drop off quite quickly."
