The Health Service Executive has warned that contact tracers are receiving a "hostile" reception from some people deemed close contacts of a positive case of Covid-19. "Calls have increased significantly in complexity and are taking longer," the HSE told RTÉ's Prime Time programme. "The response from some people can be hostile as they are not happy to be identified as a close contact, and informed that they must restrict their movements." Close contacts are advised to isolate for 14 days and to undertake two separate tests for Covid-19.
The time it takes to trace such contacts has almost doubled since schools returned. "Our turnaround time for contact tracing was 1-1.2 days until the return of schools.