Outrage as Louth Covid-19 test centre closed over Christmas Reporter: '); '); Louth people fearing they had Covid-19 were told they would have to travel to Mullingar to get tested as the local testing centre in Ardee was closed over Christmas. The Covid-19 testing centre in Ardee was closed for several days over the Christmas period with people suspecting they had the virus being told they would have to make the four-hour round trip to be tested. The closure of the local testing centre came as county Louth had one of the highest rates of confirmed cases of Covid-19 nationwide and just days before the Government put the country into Level 5 lockdown again due to an alarming surge in positive cases.