The Government should consider closing the country’s borders to prevent new coronavirus infections coming into the State, one of the leading infectious diseases experts has said. Dr Paddy Mallon, a consultant at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin and professor of microbial diseases at UCD, said a major risk to the State was more new Covid-19 infections coming in. “We have got our own outbreak in the country that we are trying to extinguish but the big threat is new infections coming in,” he said. Ages of deadState officials reported another 10 deaths from coronavirus, bringing the death toll from the disease in the Republic to 46. The HSE said there had been “limited testing nationally” on Sunday due to the short supply of testing materials.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2020 00:19 UTC