Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by Department of Health Officials

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will ask one more quick question, although the answer might be a bit long. What is the medium to longer-term strategy? Some people are saying we need to crush the curve as was done in Australia and New Zealand, allowing these countries to open up more widely. South Korea has taken a different approach that consists of very comprehensive testing, tracing and isolation. Sweden took a different approach, which was broadly to stay open. It has approximately the same fatality rate as Ireland. Has a strategy been decided on? Where is the thinking with regard to how we are going to deal with this over months and, as Mr. Breslin has pointed out, possibly years?

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