The Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has described the contribution of the National Ambulance Service in testing people for Covid-19 as "mighty", ahead of the opening of five new walk-in testing centres to be operated by the ambulance service from today.
The new centres, in Dublin and Tullamore, will be open for one week, and aim to test up to 500 people each day. The HSE is urging those living near a walk-in test centre who do not have symptoms of Covid-19 but who are nevertheless concerned about the virus to drop in for a free test over the next seven days.
Around one in five people have no symptoms but still spread the disease. This is of particularly concern because the highly transmissible B117 variant is