Victoria White: Complacency to challenge of Covid-19 poses existential threat

I would feel more secure if our Government took the ‘Covid first, whatever the consequences’ attitude belatedly being expressed in Italy, writes Victoria White.

A traveller wears a mask as she fills out a form at a check point set up by border police inside Rome’s Termini train station on Tuesday, after the Italian government extended a coronavirus containment to the entire country. Picture: Andrew Medichini/AP