UCC contact tracing centre 'firefighting' spread of Covid-19

Pictured in the HSE Contact Tracing Centre at UCC were (at the front from left) Kathryn Neville, one of the organisational leads on behalf of UCC; Dr. Martina Hayes, volunteer contact tracer, and Prof. Ivan Perry, Professor of Public Health at UCC and one of the organisational leads on behalf of UCC. Also in picture are Dr. Cliodhna Foley Nolan, (back centre) Public Health Specialist, and some of the contact tracers. Picture Denis Minihane.

In a quiet call centre set up in the basement of the Boole library at University College Cork (UCC), volunteers are helping tackle the spread of Covid-19 by picking up the phone and methodically making their way through a national database.