Ireland among countries urged to consider reinstating Covid-19 restrictions

A spokesman for the HSE said an overall plan would be sent to the National Public Health Emergency Team later this week, after engagement with key stakeholders.

Alongside a tailored and comprehensive testing strategy, the speed of contact tracing is important to reduce transmission, it says. Efforts should be made to shorten the time needed for each step in the testing, notification and contact-tracing process. Speaking at a NPHET briefing on Monday, acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn said Ireland is still “in a good place” relative to many places in the world, despite recent increase in case numbers. New figures from the ECDC show the incidence of the virus in Ireland rising above that in the UK for the first time on Monday.

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