Editorial view: Clarity is needed at the end of a grim year
The continuing uncertainty over when businesses can fully reopen after months of inactivity is helping no one
Hopes for a brief Christmas reprieve from the relentless nature of the Covid-19 pandemic were dashed last week in spectacular style.
In many ways, things couldn’t have gone worse in the week before Christmas. New Covid-19 infections grew at a speed described by health officials as “frightening”, while a new and seemingly more infectious strain of the virus was confirmed as already circulating in Ireland.
The identification of this new strain...
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