Covid surges will continue unless we improve ventilation, expert warns

University College Cork professor John Wenger: Leadership is now badly needed to prevent yet another winter of Covid surges.

Ireland has failed to make sufficient progress in improving indoor ventilation and leadership is now badly needed to prevent yet another winter of Covid surges, an expert at University College Cork (UCC) has warned.

John Wenger, chair of the Expert Group on the Role of Ventilation in Reducing Transmission of Covid-19, has expressed disappointment that warnings issued this time last year have been ignored and the country finds itself back in the midst of another preventable surge.