Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases
Mr. Paul Reid:
Can I just make one very brief point? I wish to urge caution from the public's perspective. There was a really interesting study from the ESRI released this morning. What we are seeing in the transmission of the virus is that it is not just in meat plants. In fact, a high prominence of transmission is in various workplaces and largely community, social and home settings. The ESRI report made a very good point regarding the public's perception of blame in terms of transmission. I would just put it in the round. The transmission we are seeing, as NPHET and Professor Philip Nolan will outline later, is quite wide ranging. Transmission of the virus is across a whole range of sectors and settings.
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