Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy
Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
How might this policy play out in ports and airports? I understand that the specifics have not been worked out but to date we have been issued with a green list and from what I can gather, at the moment 7% of people who fly into the country are contacted after that to see if they have isolated and only half of those answer the phone when contacted. Would a big part of this policy involve enhancing the test, trace and isolate capacity in airports? In the week after the green list was published, many of the countries on the list were quickly removed. Is it also important to have a red list and to ensure that people coming in from red list countries are tested, traced and isolated more than those from green list countries? Perhaps those are questions for Professor Kearney.
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