Public review must ask 'hard questions' on how covid was handled

Hard questions need to be answered and “backed up with data”, he said, highlighting a specific concern around laboratories.. Picture: Denis Minihane.

A public review into how the Covid-19 pandemic was handled must answer "hard" questions and be backed up with data, a leading immunologist said.

Liam Fanning, Professor of Immunovirology at University College Cork, said internal reviews are not enough and this "needs to be thrashed out publicly".