Páirc Uí Chaoimh tests drop from 1000 per day to 100 over two weeks

Testing capacity at Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh Covid-19 swab centre plunged from its target of 1,000 tests per day to just 100 over the last two weeks, a source at the centre said.

Although staff were getting through approximately 800 tests a day up to two weeks ago, that dropped to “80-100”, due to a global shortage in reagents, the chemicals needed to test swab samples.