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The coronavirus must be allowed to spread among people under the age of 60 in a controlled manner, the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee will be informed on Wednesday.
Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist, Dr. Johan Giesecke, will recommend that the virus be allowed to spread through the population in conjunction with a program that focuses on the “old and frail” and frequently assesses staff and children. residents in nursing homes.
Mr. Giesecke will also warn the government not to build its Covid-19 strategy around the imminent arrival of a vaccine, stating: “We may have to wait and it may not be very effective for those who need it most.”
Additionally, Ireland should also stop targeting Covid-free status or even as low as July at the end of the shutdown, the Irish Society for Clinical Microbiology president Kirsten Schaffer will tell the committee.
The “economic and social impact would be devastating,” he is expected to say.
Another 334 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported Tuesday night to the Health Protection Surveillance Center (HPSC), 174 of them in Dublin.
This brings the total number of cases linked to the virus in the Republic to 33,444.
No new deaths were reported, leaving the total number of deaths at 1,792.
Of the new cases, 34 were located in Cork and on Tuesday, government sources reported growing political concern over the increase in cases in the county.
Passengers
It has also been found that only a quarter of passengers entering Ireland have been contacted by a new service, the aim of which is to verify compliance with quarantine requirements for 14 days.
Róisin Shortall, co-leader of the Social Democrats, has also expressed concern about the risk of the spread of the coronavirus following the revelation that the vast majority of the 370,000 passengers who arrived in Ireland since August came from countries that were not on the green list.
A mandatory electronic passenger locator form was introduced on August 26 around the same time that a new call center was established to track passengers. In response to a parliamentary question, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly told Ms Shortall that in the first week of operation of this service, when 59,605 people arrived through airports, 70,000 SMS messages were sent and carried out 13,000 calls to a “sample”. of all incoming passengers.
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