A new initiative to produce video messages giving public health advice on Covid-19 in different languages aims to help the migrant community to better understand the safety measures in place in Ireland to help to prevent transmission of the virus.
Dr Shamim Syed, a GP in Cavan, told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that "we presume migrant communities will understand the messages" about public health information given via the news media or in written format.
However, she said that many people in migrant communities living here follow public health messages from their home country as they consume their native media.
Dr Syed said Brazilian, Pakistani or Russian migrants can often follow public health guidelines from those countries, rather than what is