Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission

Professor Johan Giesecke:

There is no law telling people to stay at home more and the police will not pick someone up who is in the street when he should not be. It is just telling people what they should do with distancing, handwashing, staying home and so on, and self-isolation if they feel sick. When the Government introduced these measures in mid-March, it was possible to calculate that the number of potentially infectious contacts between people in Sweden dropped by 70%. That was just voluntary with no law. People did what they were asked to do and they have continued to do so. One thing that is good with the Swedish strategy is that we have not changed anything for the six months whereas other countries are going in and out of lockdowns and restrictions including the countries to which one can or cannot fly. That was the first question. The second one was about care homes. I am sorry, could the Deputy remind me?

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