WHO: Ireland doing the right thing with reopening of schools

Executive Director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, Dr Mike Ryan. Picture: WHO

Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organisation's Health Emergencies Programme, has said that Ireland was doing the right thing with the reopening of schools and that school administrators and teachers were to be commended on their diligence.

Dr Ryan, who is also leading the WHO’s team responsible for the international containment and treatment of Covid-19, told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that the issue of whether GPs were involved in the testing system was not important, what mattered was that people got tested and knew where to go to get tested.