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Reid raised concern over NPHET's commitment on number of weekly Covid-19 tests

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The HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid raised concern over the National Public Health Emergency Team's (NPHED) commitment to increase to 100,000 the number of Covid-19 tests per week.

This concern was expressed in a letter to the Secretary General at the Department of Health on Sunday 19 April. The correspondence has just been published following several requests from the Labour Leader Alan Kelly, who has described it as "explosive" in the Dáil this afternoon.

Mr Reid wrote that he was taken by surprise by Dr Tony Holohan's letter (received at 20:50) on Friday 17 April and also by the NPHED press conference that spoke about increasing testing.

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