Ireland needs to continue lockdown to “crush” the curve while also making the wearing of masks mandatory.  That’s according to Professor Gerry Killeen is the newly appointed Axa Research Chair of Applied Pathogen Ecology at the School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences in UCC.

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