Air Corps crews made 12 flights to Munich this year to deliver Covid-19 swab samples to a German laboratory for testing. The flights have been conducted each weekend in January and are scheduled to continue over the next few weekends.
The Defence Forces said this is part of it's "continued effort to provide surge capacity to the HSE". Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid said a total of three million Covid-19 tests have been completed to date and described this as a "great milestone". "It's never been easy & we haven't got it all right, all the time.
But everyone involved deserves huge credit. A good public service protecting us through every wave", he said on Twitter. As well as carrying out these deliveries to