1,000 cases of Covid-19 a day if schools reopen, UCC expert warns

'Ireland is going down the wrong path in reopening schools. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

A UCC virologist claims the country will have 1,000 cases of Covid-19 within eight weeks if the current trend continues and schools are allowed to reopen.

Professor Gerry Killeen, AXA Research Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences in UCC, said Ireland is going down the wrong path in reopening schools.