Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State
Mr. Paul Reid:
On turnaround times, it is important to look at what is happening internationally both in terms of capacity and turnaround times. We obviously monitor what is happening in other European countries in terms of capacity and turnaround. As recently as last week, there were a couple of good papers done by the University of Sussex business school which make comparisons between Ireland, Italy, Germany, Spain, South Korea, South Africa and a range of other countries. Ireland benchmarks extremely well, as it also did yesterday in terms of-----