HSE chief executive Paul Reid will on Tuesday tell Oireachtas members that Ireland should prepare for further waves of Covid-19 in the months ahead. In his opening statement to the Oireachtas special committee on Covid-19, Mr Reid states “it is increasingly evident that we can expect and should therefore plan for subsequent waves” of the disease. In the past week, the HSE completed 87,940 tests, according to Mr Reid’s opening statement, bringing the total to 1.12 million. Last week, some 15,381 contact tracing calls were completed, the highest number to date. He will say that the median end-to-end turnaround time in community settings is currently two days, and that recruitment is ongoing for contact tracing.

Source: The Irish Times September 29, 2020 00:00 UTC