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:

It is inevitable. It will spread but we should try to keep that spread as low as possible and concentrate much of what we are doing on that area. In Sweden the majority of people who died were in care homes.

We must continue with frequent testing and contact tracing and be very aggressive about keeping control of what is happening in care homes. That is a great deal of work and is not 100% useful, but it would bring down the number of deaths, which I would say is the main aim of our efforts.