Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed)

Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

We are under time pressure. The overall approach to infection prevention and control includes organisational and individual approaches. It is very much about ensuring that people undertake all of our advice on infection prevention and control and that PPE is used, as appropriate in the circumstances, to protect patients and healthcare workers. That is what we have learned. As a consequence of where we have come from to where we are now, we are beginning to see that it is having some impact, but it needs to be reinforced in all circumstances and that is what we accept we need to do if we have to deal with another wave.

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