Covid-19 airport testing: Company claims it can tests thousands every day

Testing is available for essential workers and industries at present, not holidays. 

Tester Samantha Jakstonyte pictured with Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director, Cork Airport at a RocDoc drive-thru Covid-19 testing centre at Cork Airport. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

Cork and Shannon airports are hoping new onsite testing near their terminals will be the first step in normalising travel across the EU -- with the healthcare firm behind it saying it can test thousands per day if necessary. 

Managing director of Cork Airport, Niall MacCarthy, was the first person to be tested under Irish healthcare firm RocDoc's new facility, which they claim can test up to 30 people every hour in each of the three bays onsite.