The regional Department of Public Health that covers Dublin and surrounding counties needs extra resources immediately or Covid-19 will “overtake” the population. This is according to one of the country’s leading public health consultants, Dr Anne Dee. “And they are not qualified to do complex contact tracing work that we have been doing for decades. “We can and we do, in the regional Public Health Departments, where we are slightly better resourced relative to our population areas. “The problem will not be solved by only expanding the CTC, we need to resource Public Health adequately in this region, or watch Covid overtake the population of Dublin.

Source: Irish Examiner September 28, 2020 14:46 UTC