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Hard Shoulder, Professor McLysaght said a zero COVID approach would mean two major changes.
Restrictions could drag on into 2022 if Ireland doesn t adopt zero COVID approach now - Prof Aoife McLysaght
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She said: “Hotel quarantine would be proper hotel quarantine, not just from specific countries… if you really want to prevent variants coming into Ireland, you need to quarantine everybody. We need to make sure we don’t bring it in.
“The other thing is to resource the public health unit properly. Public health medicine is a specific specialty in medicine. In Ireland, our public health doctors are not properly resourced. If they were, they’d be really, really valuable for us in fighting the pandemic.