The three stages of Ireland's coronavirus control plan explained

Despite 35 confirmed cases and its first death from Covid 19, Ireland - for now - remains in containment phase, the first of three as part of the State’s efforts to curb the new, and as yet uncurable, disease.

Despite 35 confirmed cases and its first death from Covid 19, Ireland - for now - remains in containment phase, the first of three as part of the State’s efforts to curb the new, and as yet incurable, disease.

Those three stages are not identical to similar plans in place across international borders, but they do broadly resemble one another.