New walk-in testing centre is opening in Dunmanway this morning at 9am
The facility at Randal Óg GAA Club is part of efforts to detects more asymptomatic cases in communities across the country.
Head of the HSE's Test and Trace programme, Niamh O'Beirne, says they're the first centres to be set-up for walk-ins and people with a GP referral:
"What we're doing with the pilot is testing how a centre can operate and manage both walk-ins and also the appointment based service, to see if this is a something that we could go and do in the future, across the rest of our static testing in the state."
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