Testing 100,000 people a week does not make economic sense, says HSE boss

A pop-up Covid-19 testing sentre at the Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Picture: Colin Keegan

Testing 100,000 people per week does not make economic sense, the head of the HSE has said.

Speaking to the Oireachtas special committee on Covid-19, Paul Reid, chief executive of the HSE, said that the goal both at the height of the Covid pandemic and at the current time was to achieve capacity of 100,000 tests per week, rather than to actually perform that number.