Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Briefing by HSE Officials
Mr. Paul Reid:
Currently, we are meeting the target. The target for last week was 85% to be done within five days. This week it is 90% to be done within three days. Specifically, in relation to the overall performance of our testing and tracing right now, I mentioned in my opening statement some of the initiatives. To get back to the Deputy's specific question about negative tests, what happens now is if we take all the tests that are done on a Monday, currently 97% of tests are negative. We have a 3% positivity rate. Those 97% will get their test result in two days or less. If it was a hospital setting, it will be less than a day. If it was a community setting, overall it will be two days or less.
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