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

Dr. John Cuddihy:

No. The contact management programme processes a large number of cases and contacts. The priority is to identify the contacts and the risk of transmission to others. We have been doing that on an ongoing basis. As was said, we have been doing this retrospective work as well across the public health departments, looking at the various different settings I mentioned earlier, and I can make available.