Image: Shutterstock/Hand Robot Image: Shutterstock/Hand Robot THE HSE HAS been in contact with Irish pharmaceutical companies and laboratories in Ireland to discuss ramping up production of the reagents needed for Covid-19 tests.
He said three actions have now been taken to address the supply issues. For now, some testing will be processed abroad to address the current backlog and allow labs to prioritise groups such as healthcare workers and hospital inpatients. In a short time we have scaled up on, testing centres, testing kits, contact tracers, nbr of Labs, hospital beds, ICU, ventilators, PPE, staff.
He acknowledged that at 2,600 tests a day currently, Ireland will not reach the 15,000 a day health officials had hoped for this week or even next week.
Why aren't they buying these tests......
Chemical companies in UK say the have loads of reagent that the British government don't seem to want to use
In Ireland, we don’t know how many people are actually infected with Covid19, the level,of it in the community, we don’t know in most cases who the infected are, we don’t know their personal cintacts and we can’t isolate in time. So, we are unable to break the chains on transmiss
'in talks' why not just tell them