No new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the Isle of Man over the last 24 hours.

This means we’ve had no new cases for nine days in a row and there’s been no cases in the community for 15 days.

The current number of active cases remains at 30.At a Covid public question and answer session this afternoon, public health director Dr Henrietta Ewart was asked what could be done to avoid a situation like that currently facing Guernsey.'The simple answer - we can't,' she said.Guernsey went into lockdown at the weekend after four Covid cases were detected which appeared to be the result of community transmission.There are now 84 known active cases, with 22 new cases found in the last day.Dr Ewart said: 'We were almost like Guernsey just into the New Year when we had really quite a significant cluster.'We are still doing the final analysis to really understand where it came from but at the moment we are pretty confident it came from a travel episode so we know how it got in.'Guernsey are one step further down the line of uncertainty in at the moment they can't link their cluster to a travel event.'We were lucky. By the time we had managed to identify the issue we had got one line of transmission and we just had to follow that through with rigorous contact tracing and testing.'They potentially have got a whole range of different lines of transmission that could be going all over the place in the community.'