Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 24 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Impact on International Travel
Mr. Evan Cullen:
The 2% comes from the International Air Transport Association, IATA. On the back of the final page of our submission we source and reference from where we get all of our data. We stand over that figure. There is no evidence of passenger to passenger transmission. I concede that it is possible that a person infected with the virus could bring it into the State but the science has proven that it is behaviour that leads to the transmission of the virus, not travel. We believe that with proper testing and tracing the industry can be sustained and properly policed. This needs to happen at the airports, with proper follow-up on the passenger locator information and so on.
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