There’s ongoing concern about the amount of testing been done here as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.
There are now 3,447 confirmed cases and 85 people have died
There are 29 clusters in nursing homes across the country – this means at least three people are affected within a setting.
Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory Dr. Cillian De Gascun says they’re working on getting more of the reagent needed for the Covid tests.
"It's certainly disappointing from our perspective.
"It doesn't really change our plan in context of building up to where we want to be, which is 15,000 tests a day by the end of the month.
"With any new system that you're putting in place there's always going to be a couple of stumbles or hiccups along the road, we're certainly behind where we intended to be - we're at about 1,500 tests a day at the moment where we thought we would be at about 5,000."
