Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by Department of Health Officials

Dr. Tony Holohan:

If I can add to that, one of the things that will help in our understanding of the community transmission, and I accept the point the Deputy is making, will be the decision we have taken to introduce this week, with the easing of restrictions, the testing of close contacts of cases, which many other countries are not doing. That will add significantly to our understanding of community transmission and asymptomatic transmission and give us a much greater response, as it were, in terms of our handling of that.

Regarding the R-nought, it is based on the summation of three models and-----

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