Others are at 10%.
Some Covid swabbing sites are reporting 25 per cent positivity rates and many others 10 per cent.
HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid is warning the more widespread the coronavirus is in the community, the more it can breakthrough to those vaccinated.
Some of our #COVID19 swabbing sites now have up to 25% positives on testing & many counties at 10%. The more widespread it is in the community, the more it can breakthrough to those vaccinated. For a few weeks, let's all take care, aim to see this off & reduce illness. @HSELive
— Paul Reid (@paulreiddublin) July 20, 2021
Meanwhile, close contacts of someone with Covid 19 are expected to be given antigen tests to do themselves, instead of PCR ones, from next week.
They will be asked to collect the tests at their local testing centre and take four in total over ten days.
NPHET has been critical of antigen testing but Niamh O’Beirne from the HSE says the ones they’re using will be very reliable
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