Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres
Dr. Kevin Kelleher:
When instances happen, wherever they happen around a case being identified, the individual case is spoken to as to who would likely be their contacts.
That is what happens in these circumstances. It is my understanding that the first case arose approximately 12 to 14 days after the person involved was moved. It is unlikely that was as a consequence of what happened in the hotel. Even so, as a consequence of the investigations carried out by the public health people in the hotel, there was no need to speak to people outside the group that was concerned because of the way they lived together at that time.
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