The Health Service Executive has promised to speed up the turnaround time for Covid-19 test results and for contact tracing.
Over 250,000 tests have now been performed and the number of patients testing positive is reducing. The HSE said it has the capacity to meet the demands for Covid-19 testing, even with the recently expanded test criteria.
But it said that some of the delays in results and contact tracing are because a complex new system had to be built in around eight weeks.
Over a quarter of a million tests have now been performed and the positivity rate is down to 3.3%. The HSE said that test delays are not due to any single cause but can be down to a lack of automation, transcription errors, and hospitals having different computer