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HSE To Begin ‘Surveillance
2020 Taoiseach: Restrictions On Project’ To Identify Sources Of

30th, Visitors To Last Until Next Year The HSE is set to begin a new C
Community Transmission
September estrictions on travelers have not met their loved or therapeutics would be the “surveillance project” which will President & Founding
attempt to track down the source of
infection for Covid-19 cases labelled
Publisher
entering Ireland arelikely
because of Covid-19.
rent restrictions on travel
Rto remain in place until ones for quite some time only way of reducing the cur- as “community transmission”. Paddy McCarthy
| the middle of next year, the “The challenge I think is between the UK and Ireland, nity transmission” when the person Grahame Curtis
Cases are designated as “commu-
Editor
EXAMINER Taoiseachhassaid. going to continue for some Mr. Martin said Irish Foreign is not a close contact of another Associate Publisher
time. If I’m honest I believe
Micheál Martin said the
Affairs
Simon
Minister
confirmed case of the disease and it
Marc-Yves Tumin
Coveney and Cabinet Office
we have to look to the mid-
need for people to self-isolate
is unclear where they first came into
News Editor
IRISH on their arrival in the dle of next year to see if any Minister Michael Gove were contact with the virus. Special Arts & Entertainment Editor
working together to see if the
Republic of Ireland would
respite is on the way in the
David Carter
the
At
Oireachtas
form of a vaccine or better
Governments could provide
most likely continue until
well into next year and could therapeutics and that we mechanisms and better sup- Committee on Covid-19 Response Brad Balfour
be dependent on a “vaccine learn to live with and deal ports to people travelling on Tuesday, the HSE confirmed it
or better therapeutics”. with the virus more effective- within the Common Travel will now question people diagnosed Sales Director
John O’Rourke
People who travel to ly.” Area. with Covid-19 about their move-
Ireland from Britain and Mr. Martin made the “Again it’s problematic,” ments in the 14 days before they Classified Advertising
other countries, with the comments during an inter- Mr. Martin said. developed symptoms. John O’Rourke
exception of Cyprus, Finland, view with the i newspaper “The public health per- Currently, contact tracers ask Art Director
Latvia and Liechtenstein, broadcast at the Liberal sonnel are not convinced yet people who have tested positive for Heidi Gross Kelley
must agree to self-isolate for Democrats’ online party con- about testing at airports.” the virus about their movements Contributors
two weeks on their arrival. ference on Monday. He added: “Caution is still only up to the 48 hours before they Joe Kavanagh, C.S. O’Brien, Mike
Fitzpatrick, Seamus Kelleher, John
The Taoiseach recognized Asked whether a vaccine the order of the day.” C first felt unwell. Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
the need to quarantine was John Cuddihy, director of the McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
“problematic”, especially for Health Protection Surveillance Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
members of the Irish com- Center, said a questionnaire is being Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
munity living in Britain, but prepared to source this new infor- Daly, Jim McKeon
he said the measures were mation. Contributing Photographers
necessary to limit the spread “It goes into detail of the various Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
of Covid-19. different places and people that the Wong
“It is very difficult,” Mr. case may have interacted with, and Circulation
Martin said. it also includes a diary that we take John Philip, Manager
“It is really stressful and them through for the previous 14 North East - Paul Hamrock
difficult for families who days,” he said. C West Coast - Jim Clement
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