Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE

Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

That already exists. We already have and are part of a number of arrangements within both the EU and the WHO to deal with that, so we already have in place systems that allow us, if somebody flies into Ireland now and has been off the flight for two or three days, to identify that he or she is positive. We can go back with the airlines and others to identify potentially the people who might be at risk and then deal with that in those ways. We are doing that at the moment for about four or five flights per day. We are quite active on it. It is part of the system-----

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