Coronavirus: Testing capacity up 20% in a week, says department

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Trials on antigen tests being conducted around State; tracing regime under fire

Mr McNamara, chairman of the Oireachtas all-party Covid-19 committee said a German academic, Prof Kristen Schaffer, working in the Irish hospital system, had told the committee that “our tracing system was simply not working”.

Ms Naughten told RTÉ’s The Week in Politics the tests might be available in a number of weeks but certainly within months. “There is a willingness to help but it is not clear what we are being asked to do,” said one private hospital source.

 

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