Over 5.1m records on HSE's contact tracing database

HSE clinical lead for testing Niamh O'Beirne, with HSE CEO Paul Reid. Ms O'Beirne said that contact tracing data is being held due to the 'ongoing urgency of the response to Covid-19'. Picture: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland/PA Wire

Ireland’s contact tracing database of people who either have contracted Covid-19 or have been close contacts has over 5.1m records.

The information on the database, known as the Covid Care Tracker, is expected to be held until at least the end of the pandemic, according to tracing lead Niamh O’Beirne.