Ireland records highest number of Covid-19 tests in a day

This afternoon the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly praised the HSE for hitting the new daily testing record. File picture: Marc O’Sullivan

HSE boss Paul Reid has said yesterday saw the highest number of Covid-19 tests completed in a single day.

He tweeted this lunchtime, saying 13,000 tests were completed, adding that the "end to end" completion time is now down to 2.1 days.