Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice
Professor Philip Nolan:
There was also a blanket assertion, however, about not being sufficiently transparent. At our daily briefing, we are going to come to the point that the Deputy raised, through supporting work on a new dashboard to make more data, which is there but is very complex to present in a digestible way, available to the public.
There has been a general theme here which I want to address in the context of additional measures, such as test, trace, isolate and face masks. What we do know is the mechanism by which we suppress the transmission of this virus is avoiding unnecessary contacts, maintaining reasonable physical distance, and rigorous hygiene. All of the other things are supplements to that.
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