Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Briefing by Department of Health Officials
Dr. Tony Holohan:
No. That is an absolute statement. I could not say that in absolute terms. We have effectively brought it down to a very low level. We do not have sustained widespread community transmission. We know that because we are not seeing a caseload which would reflect that, in spite of the fact that we have very substantial testing capacity in place. We are testing large numbers of people relative to the number of positive cases that are being identified. We can be assured about that.
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