Almost 150,000 covid-19 tests have been administered at community testing centres in Carlow and Kilkenny since the pandemic began.
That’s according to the HSE’s latest weekly briefing.
85 thousand 778 Covid-19 tests have been carried out in Kilkenny and 64 thousand and 78 in Carlow have been since the HSE’s operation began in March 2020.
In the past week alone, 2 thousand 864 tests have been conducted in Carlow including 602 tests at a temporary site at the Carlow Youth Centre.
There were 3 thousand 501 tests in Kilkenny last week.
So far over 450 thousand tests have been administered through the five permanent HSE community centres across the South East.