Mercy Hospital medical scientists race against clock to meet Covid-19 challenge

Dr. James O’Connor, senior medical scientist and Liz Fitzpatrick, chief medical scientist working on Covid-19 sample preparation in the microbiology laboratory at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

For the medical scientists at Cork’s Mercy Hospital, it was a race against the clock.

The challenge, how to get a test for Covid-19 up and running from scratch.