Increasing Covid-19 restrictions for the next week or two would bring down transmissions, and might shorten the time that our economy has to stop, Professor Sam McConkey, has said.
Speaking on RTÉ's Drivetime, Prof McConkey, the head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, suggested that by "going hell for leather" in terms of restrictions for the next two weeks would eradicate community transmission of Covid-19.
He said "as long as there are unexplained community transmissions of the virus, that's the real worry." If there are community transmissions, "at any time that can explode in to another outbreak", he said.