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3rd April 2020
08:35am BST
"The progress that we have made is definitely not enough. We need to get that rate of increase down to about five percent or less, in order to give us the assurance that we need that we will have the adequate capacity in our health service to deal with an increasing number of cases. "We'll have a better idea towards the end of next week as to how we're getting on because we'll know if the recent restrictions have been making a difference. "We will be able to make a decision towards the end of next week, as to whether those restrictions need to be extended, relaxed or refined in any way."
He also said that before the restrictions can ease, an effective network of contact tracing must be in operation.Briefing by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar following the meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on Covid-19 | Follow live updates: https://t.co/pEIGg5h65m https://t.co/tSMCsCAcJx
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) April 2, 2020
"Contact tracing is being stepped up. There will be a point in the future where we start to ease the restrictions, we can only do that if we have good testing and contact tracing infrastructure available to us."He also encouraged students currently studying for their Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle to continue as the government aim to hold exams as scheduled this year. The Taoiseach wants to avoid a situation where these pupils lose out on "a year" or "half a year" if they were unable to go ahead.
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