Around 100 health workers were at tested for Covid-19 at the first NHS staff testing centre in Belfast. The facility at the SSE Arena opened yesterday and complements testing being carried out by Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland.
It is part of the UK-wide NHS initiative on staff testing in which Randox and Deloitte are key partners. Kits to test for coronavirus being used on the SSE site are made by Randox Laboratories.
The company has manufacturing facilities both sides of the border in Antrim and Donegal, and employs around 1,500 people around the world.
The British government is already engaged with the company as part of its national testing plan, with the possibility of ordering millions of kits.