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Kildare Covid 19 Positivity Rate Running At 8.5%

Friday, 23 July 2021 09:48

By Ciara Plunkett @plunkettciara

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Louth has the highest swab positivity rate, at over 12%.

There's an 8.5% positivity rate for Covid 19 swabs taken in Co. Kildare.

The Health Service Executive has released the data, by county.

It shows Kildare is mid-table, at 13th highest positivity in Ireland.

Louth has the highest swab positivity rate by county at over 12 per cent.

28 per cent of Covid-19 tests taken at a centre in Buncrana Co. Donegal are coming back positive.

Aoife McLysaght is Professor in the Molecular Evolution Laboratory at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity College, Dublin.

She joined Eoin Beatty on Friday's edition of Kildare Today.

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