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Rapid test providers say staycations won’t save Irish businesses dependent on international tourism 9th June, 2021
Antigen testing companies will today tell the Oireachtas transport committee that Ireland is an outlier internationally when it comes to rapid antigen testing
Ireland “cannot afford” to delay the rollout of antigen testing for international travel if it wants to save its tourism industry, a Dáil committee will hear today.
Antigen testing companies will tell the Oireachtas transport committee that Ireland is an outlier internationally when it comes to the rapid Covid-19 tests, the introduction of which has proved divisive among politicians and public health experts.
On that basis, a test designed to limit Covidâs spread only needs to have sensitivity rates of 30 per cent to 40 per cent, he said. âSo 50 per cent is actually a good value if that test is only meant to detect infection,â Prof Mina noted.
He told the committee that data increasingly showed that using rapid screening before large gatherings could prevent 90 per cent to 95 per cent of transmissions.
Prof Mina maintained that antigen testing passengers an hour before a flight was more likely to prevent virus transmission than requiring a negative PCR result from several days before, which the Republicâs authorities demand.
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