Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres

Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

My maths was not good enough when I was answering earlier. So far, I have got a record of us performing just shy of 2,700 tests, of which 180 were positive. There were ten places tested where no case was identified, which gets us close to 1,000 tests. It shows a very different picture across the system. There were some places with nobody positive at all. Our current position is that we would take it on board primarily as a consequence of symptoms of an individual who shows signs of Covid-19. We would then investigate that with a clinician as a consequence and decide how to progress it. One would hope that the first person would be asked to be properly isolated such that they would then reduce the risk of passing on to anybody else and the person they were sharing a room with, if that was so, would then be asked to isolate as well and restrict their movements.

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