It's trying to contain Europe's largest outbreak of the coronavirus.
A midlands school says they have no plans to cancel their ski trip in northern Italy despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
100 transition students at St. Mary's CBS in Portlaoise are travelling to the Artesina region, which the Department of Health has not earmarked as a red zone.
Northern Italy has struggled to contain the disease with hundreds confirmed cases of the virus and many regions forced into lock-down.
Principal of St Mary's CBS, Maura Murphy, says a similar situation occurred when the students had organised a trip to Africa during the Ebola outbreak.
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