The Chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team's coronavirus expert advisory group has said work is ongoing to bring the country's testing capacity to a level that it needs to be at.
Speaking on RTÉ's Saturday with Katie Hannon, Dr Cillian De Gascun said there was a lot of fixation over a capacity figure over the past number of months, but that the HSE has done huge work from a procurement perspective to ensure there is a resilience and robustness that was not there in March or April.
"So that information feeds into the system and that makes you realise that the capacity is not sufficient. He said nothing is inevitable with regard to restrictions, but they do know there are worrying trends across the country. He said every time new measures are implemented in an area, NPHET expects to see the results over the course of the next two weeks, adding that they are looking to see a stabilisation of Dublin cases soon.He said we need to get through this year on the back of public health messaging, adding that it would be a positive step to have a vaccine available by the winter of 2021.
While it was too early to tell for sure, he said we should take this "as encouragement to maintain and redouble our efforts". — Professor Philip Nolan September 26, 2020 The HSE chief executive Paul Reid took to Twitter today to urge people not to knock the younger generation, but to galvanise them.
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