'“We can bring this virus down to a manageable level and then down to zero. Photo: Mark CondrenIreland is facing into 2,000 new coronavirus cases per day if we fail to get it under control, drastically limiting the effectiveness of any vaccination programme. But we have to make that choice.”He said there’s “no pain-free way of getting to zero”, but the alternatives are unthinkable. "The evidence from that is that most secondary schools and a minority of primary schools, have had one or more cases,” he said. However, he said that unlike flu virus, schools “are not central” to the spread of Covid-19 and primary schools “do not play a major part” in the spread of this disease.

Source: Irish Independent December 22, 2020 15:00 UTC