Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Testing and Tracing

Professor Paddy Mallon:

There is availability of a rapid test - a nucleic acid-based test, which is the gold standard - and that would give a turnaround time of between 40 minutes and one hour. We will not for the foreseeable future get access to enough of those kits to make it feasible to place at the point of entry for airports.

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