Medical chief rejects Taoiseach’s view schools could reopen earlier than planned
on Wednesday night announced the scrapping of a scheme to provide temporary childcare to healthcare workers – launched just last week to provide childcare at home for front-line medics – due to the low take-up by childcare providers.
The HSE will pledge in a new plan to be unveiled on Thursday that Covid-19 test results and contact tracing will be turned around within 72 hours – down from a nine-day average turnaround time that health specialists say is not fast enough to fight the pandemic. Dr Holohan said that there was “a very small number of studies” on the issue involving “small numbers of children”, but insufficient evidence to change official advice on reopening schools.
Government sources suggested the Taoiseach’s intention had been to put the education system on notice that schools would reopen in September and to combat claims that this may not be possible.
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