Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has suggested the government could look at using airport Covid testing as a means of replacing the 14 day quarantine rule being imposed on travellers. The move could form part of the government’s impending mid to long term strategy that is due to be published in the coming weeks.  For more on this we were joined by Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin.

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