Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-07
============================================================

Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The Deputy is absolutely right: the quicker we can turn around the tests, the better we can do on contact tracing. I should point out, however, that contact tracing can and does start before the tests come back, so if somebody is a suspected case, the contact tracing can be started even before the test comes back. That is what is commonly done in South Korea and other jurisdictions.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2020-05-07/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:48:17+00:00
Sitting date: 2020-05-07