R number drops to between 0.5 and 0.8 - but NPHET warns this will be 'really difficult to sustain'
Health officials have regularly sought to get the reproductive number below 1.
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Health officials have regularly sought to get the reproductive number below 1.
The reproductive rate gives an indication of the number of other people who are infected by a positive case.
Harris said the country is still effectively suppressing the growth of the virus.
Harris said government will continue to be led by public health advice.
The reproductive rate of the virus is 0.45, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said.
Every person who contracts Covid-19 is expected to spread it to no more than one other person, the figures reveal.