The HSE has said that it has trained more than 1,700 people in contact tracing. In a statement to RTÉ's Prime Time, it said that today approximately 80 people were conducting contact tracing.
The statement added that on its busiest day, approximately 300 people were contact tracing, making more than 5,000 calls, after more than 1,400 people had their Covid-19 tests confirmed.
There are nine contact tracing centres throughout the country, four of which were in operation today. At the largest contact tracing centre at University College Dublin, Professor Mary Codd, Associate Dean of Public Health, told Prime Time that there are 72 phone lines in six rooms, and UCD has capacity to increase its output of contact tracing by more than 50% if