'Ireland Under Lockdown: COVID-19 Stories' features interviews with key public health decision makers.
A documentary taking an extensive look into the effects the Coronavirus pandemic has had on Ireland will air on Virgin Media One tomorrow evening from 9pm.
Reporter Zara King will present 'Ireland Under Lockdown: COVID-19 Stories' featuring stories from families who tragically lost loved ones to the virus.
While it will also explore the effect the virus has had on our mental health and well-being.
Interviews with key public health decision makers including Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan, Minister Simon Harris and HSE Director General Paul Reid, will also feature.
Tomorrow, @ZaraKing speaks with incredible people around Ireland about how COVID-19 has impacted them.
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Speaking about the night before the first lock-down was announced, Simon Harris said;
“Sitting in the Department of health in the early hours of a March morning getting ready to shut down our country, I’ll always remember looking out of that meeting room that night and seeing all the lights in the distance and thinking "they’re people’s homes, and they are in bed and they’re asleep and they don’t know that we are sitting in this room deciding that tomorrow we are closing their business."
"I remember thinking that they’re not going to be able to go back to work, that their kids aren’t going to be able to go to school, but we are doing it to save lives. I always remember looking out at all those lights and thinking, how are we going to tell people this tomorrow?”
Dr Tony Holohan said: “We had done one of our evening press conferences and we came back upstairs with some information from Cillian De Gascun - that already that afternoon there were a number of more cases that were going to be reported the following day, much, much bigger than any number we’d seen in the preceding days."
