The HSE has said Ireland completed its highest number of tests in a single day yesterday
Some 13,080 tests were completed on Friday.
The health service CEO Paul Reid said the average time from doctor’s referral to the completion of contact tracing is now down to 2.1 days.
Yesterday we completed 13,000 #COVID19 tests, our highest daily number ever. End to end completion mean time now down to 2.1 days. (Referral to notification and contacts traced). 98% negative, so vast majority would have been returned in much less than 2 days. @HSELive
— Paul Reid (@paulreiddublin) August 22, 2020
He said the vast majority were returned in “much less than two days with 98% of the tests coming back negative.
Of the 61,565 tests that have been completed in the last week, 1.2% have come back positive.
As of 8am this morning, there were 20 COVID-19 patients in Irish hospitals with six in Intensive care.
There are also 76 people with suspected cases of the virus in hospital.
