Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion
Dr. Tony Holohan:
We are, but we will keep a close eye on that. We will continue to monitor what might happen to the trends for the disease. As we gave this advice to the Government just about two weeks ago, we did point out that a number of countries that had begun to ease some of their measures saw an increase in the transmission of the infection. We will keep monitoring that. We have seen a slight increase in recent times among those in the age group from 19 to 24. We will keep a close eye on that. We are not expressing major concern about it at this point, but changes like the one in question are consistent with changes we saw and referred to in the earlier advices provided to the Government. We will have to continue to advise based on what we see in respect of any change in transmission and the question of what any given level of transmission might have in terms of conversion to hospitalisation or admission to intensive care. At this point, we are not seeing anything to give us any reason to express concern.
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