HSE can meet test and trace demand, says Paul Reid 

Mr Reid did say hospitalisation numbers are a cause for concern. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland

The director general of the HSE Paul Reid has said that the health service can carry out the target of 100,000 Covid-19 tests per week and had carried out 103,000 tests in the past week with 99,000 lab results completed in the same time period.

“We will always meet demand (for testing),” he told RTÉ radio’s News at One. More than 15,000 tests per day were being carried out, with the figure closer to 18,000 at present, he said.