Dr. Tony Holohan:

If we found ourselves in a situation of having to recommend something because we had lost control of the disease then we would have to do that but that is not an inevitability. If we can maintain the high level of practice, as I said, then we can push out the risk of that into the future. To be optimistic for a second - and again we cannot give certainty on this - we are increasingly seeing a sense that the position with vaccines may change in 2021 and offer some level of hope. We have been dealing with a virus for which we have no vaccine, no natural immunity in the population and no effective drugs targeted against it. That has been the reality. Consequently the measures open to us to control the disease are simply to stop spreading it in the first instance. If a vaccine is added to our armoury that will change things very substantially. Potentially, if other countries find themselves in a similar situation that may change the picture substantially in 2021. It is not necessarily inevitable that we will find ourselves in a situation-----