New walk-in Covid test centres to open as 11,000 attend in first week

Members of the National Ambulance Service working at a walk-in test centre on the grounds of Grangegorman Primary Care Centre in Dublin as a number of centres have opened in areas where there is a high rate of Covid-19 transmission. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

More than 11,500 people have attended the walk-in Covid testing centres which opened to the public last week.

Seven new centres will open this week aimed at identifying asymptomatic cases in the community.