Best way to beat Covid-19 is 'get tested immediately,' says Dr Ronan Glynn

Medical staff member in PPE at a pop up Covid-19 testing centre at Keadeen Hotel in Newbridge, Co Kildare, following the spate of outbreaks in Kildare.

The acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said that what is “more important than anything” in the fight against Covid-19 is that if someone has symptoms of the virus that they “come forward immediately and get a test”.

“That is how we will control the disease,” he said.