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A total of 844 persons presented for a Covid-19 swab at the walk-in test centre which opened for three consecutive days in St Aloysius College.

A symptom free ‘walk-in, no appointment necessary’ Covid-19 testing facility will open in The Stephenites Ground, Lord Edward Street, Carrowcushlaun West, Ballina, Co. Mayo (F26 E622) on Thursday 10th June and Friday 11th June from 11am to 5pm.

The laboratory at Galway University Hospitals has begun COVID-19 testing using a new high-throughput molecular PCR machine. The new equipment will enable the laboratory to process up to 500 swabs from patients per day, with a turnaround of approximately three hours per batch. Until now the laboratory was carrying out COVID-19 batch testing on two separate machines with a turnaround of up to 10 hours and a maximum of 300 tests per day.

The Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response is calling for changes to the current Covid-19 testing and contact tracing system to make it more robust and efficient.