Limiting social contacts is best way avoid more lockdowns, says Prof Philip Nolan

Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, Professor Philip Nolan: "It's going take at least a week to see results of the measures introduced in Dublin at the weekend." Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

The chair of NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, Professor Philip Nolan, is warning that even the best Covid-19 testing and tracing system is still secondary to limiting social contacts.

Professor Nolan says that while testing was important, the primary defence was to limit contacts and to be really careful.