The HSE have pledged that 100,000 Covid-19 tests will be carried out weekly, beginning during the week of May 18th next. They also pledge that there will be a three-day turnaround from the time a person contacts the HSE; to when results will issue.
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Meanwhile, the number of virus cases confirmed here in the Premier County; (as at midnight on Friday, May 1st last), have increased from 473 to 478; an increase of a further 5 new cases now being confirmed, over a 24-hour period.
The Department of Health has confirmed this evening that a further 19 people have tragically died from the Covid-19 virus, here in the Republic of Ireland.
These latest figures bring the death toll, from this pandemic, to 1,303.
A total of 330 new cases of the coronavirus have also today, been identified here in the Republic, bringing the total since conception to 21,506.
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