Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Testing and Tracing
Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask about testing at airports. One of my relatives who is an Irish citizen arrived in Hong Kong airport recently and was tested on the spot and kept in the airport for five hours until the results came back. There was a five-hour turnaround time for the test. The person was then confined to their home with a tracking device for a period afterwards. Are we going to test people arriving at airports? It seems that if we can completely suppress the illness within our island, if we reopen transport to other countries, presumably we are exposing ourselves to huge risk.
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