Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel

Professor Cecily Kelleher:

I would absolutely hope so. I take the Deputy’s point in respect of the beginning of this. There was a huge focus on acute hospital capacity. The nature of the illness was not fully understood at that point, nor was the position relating to asymptomatic, atypical or pre-symptomatic people. This has been in place since 10 March. The two tests need to be undertaken and we have strongly advocated that testing procedure should be in place and that all people transferred should be in isolation for 14 days. It absolutely should be in place.

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