Dr. Cillian De Gascun:

It is very important that we try to learn lessons from other countries that have had different experiences to ourselves. In the setting of an emergency it is difficult to take those lessons but the importance of the committee's work is try to identify lessons that can be taken from other jurisdictions and things we can do better when this happens again because, as I said earlier, we have had SARS, MERS and now SARS-CoV-2, and this will be an element of our new normal in the coming decades.

We will see it again. In the context of the WHO guidance, however, as I said earlier, I do not pre-empt any decisions on any new guidance that comes out but we would certainly review it, either at NPHET level or through the expert advisory group and we would then make advice.