Dr. Kirsten Schaffer:

I am definitely not an expert on zoonosis but I do not think we have to be concerned about Irish livestock becoming infected with Covid-19.

I will comment on the previous question. I fully agree that we can significantly improve diagnostics. A key feature of keeping our nursing homes safe is testing asymptomatic healthcare workers when there is a nursing home case. The one thing we should highlight is that we now understand the transmission modes of the virus much better. Perhaps Professor Giesecke from Sweden can come in here as well. In March and April we did not use masks in nursing homes. We did not use the appropriate PPE in nursing homes and we did not test our nursing home healthcare workers enough. That is why we had these terrible outbreaks in the nursing homes. We now know how the virus is transmitted, we know we have to use masks in every institution we work in and we know we have to test asymptomatic healthcare workers when we have a nursing home hospital case. The position in Sweden is probably similar. Sweden had bad nursing home outbreaks, but it was due to fact that it did not use the right PPE and did not test fast enough.