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Dan O'Brien Opinion Fewer deaths and our determination to keep spending shine light at end of Covid tunnel

Is there light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel? In ­Ireland and across Europe the numbers of new Covid cases in recent days and weeks remain at a fraction of those recorded last March and April. There have been fresh outbreaks in some places across the continent, but only a handful of places have come close to recording the numbers of cases of last spring. This is despite an end to lockdown and a cautious re-opening across the ­continent. So far so good, by and large.