Reduction in hospitality among key NPHET recommendations

NPHET's recommending new restrictions on household visits and indoor hospitality to tackle the spread of Covid-19.

It's understood to be proposing one household only be allowed gather with three others until mid-February.

Opening hour limits and rules around table sittings and multiple bookings at pubs and restaurants are also proposed.

There has been a further 4,163 Covid cases, while 545 people are in hospital with the virus, and 117 in ICU.

HSE chief executive Paul Reid says the health system's under major pressure.