NPHET will consider whether children should wear masks in primary schools when it meets later this morning.
It comes as nearly one in every hundred children tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
****
The European Medicines Agency's meeting today to discuss authorising the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11.
However it's unclear if a decision on its use will be made today.
***
Landlords around UCC are being urged to remind their tenants that they are living in a residential area and to be mindful of their neighbours.
The call from the Magazine Road Residents' Association has come on foot of large numbers of students hosting house parties and partying on the streets last Thursday in Christmas jumpers as part of an unofficial Christmas Day event.
***
The French President says he won't allow the English Channel to become a cemetery, after 27 people died while trying to reach the UK in small boats yesterday.
Four people have been arrested.
