'We know how to prevent transmission': NPHET chair says no excuse for uncontrolled community transmission

Chair of the NPHET Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, Professor Philip Nolan, has said that there is no excuse for uncontrolled community transmission of Covid-19. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) is not ruling out local lockdowns, according to the HSE's Chief Clinical Officer.

Counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly are to be issued with further advice from NPHET later after Covid clusters at meat factories and direct provision centres emerged.