Professor Philip Nolan:

I will make a comment and perhaps Dr. De Gascun might want to expand on it. Yes, the strategy for this country, which in time will become a European Union-wide strategy, is to suppress transmission of the virus and maintain the levels of disease at very low levels.

Any significant level of disease represents a risk to people and their health and also represents a risk of a second catastrophic outbreak. We will learn a lot then about what risks are possible and about what behaviours carry low risk in the context of that low community transmission. I return to the fact that we do not know everything about this virus yet and some things we are assuming are high risk may not actually be as high risk as we think they are.