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Monday, 23 Jan 2023
Updated / Monday, 23 Jan 2023 09:50
Students return to the campus today and received an email on Friday
around the mask-wearing advice
Trinity College Dublin has "strongly encouraged" students to wear face
masks in lectures, labs, tutorials and libraries, as Covid-19,
influenza and RSV continue to circulate.
around the mask-wearing advice.
They said that widespread mask-wearing will protect the "medically
vulnerable" members of the college community.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Medical Director at the College
Health Service David McGrath said that communications were sent to
students before Christmas "about the likelihood of significant
problems" in the health system because of the respiratory illnesses.
"It’s important to us now that our students are returning, just really
to update them on the situation and also to realise that many, many of
our students are not from Ireland and might have been at home for
Christmas, might have no idea what's happening now."
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He said that mask-wearing on campus "in general, certainly in external
spaces had probably ended," but that there were still a number of
people wearing masks.
"They were usually people who were vulnerable themselves, wearing masks
indoors and have continued to do that," Mr McGrath said.
He added that it is being advised because social distancing is no
longer being used in lecture halls.
"We don’t have any two metres in seating now as we had before. That
changed a 400-seater lecture theatre to a 30-seater lecture theatre, so
now we’re back at 400 people."
He said that "at the moment there isn’t a supply of masks" on campus
and "it is a case of bring your own".