Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State

Mr. Paul Reid:

Specifically, what I am referencing is that the public health teams inform themselves on outbreaks and on a range of matters that inform their risk-based decision making. These matters can include method and levels of transmission in the community, levels of transmission within an outbreak, and the risks within that outbreak setting. There is a lot of knowledge that they possess.