Covid test centre booked out for today

There are no testing slots left at the Covid test centre at St Loman’s Hospital for today.

Since the start of the week there have been extremely high attendance numbers with motorists turning up for their appointments having to queue.

By 10.10 today, every appointment slot was gone.

At the time of writing, there are 460 slots available for tomorrow.

Meanwhile the figures for Tuesday evening show there were no general beds available at Mullingar Hospital, but there was one free intensive care bed. The hospital had fluctuating numbers of Covid patients in beds over the course of the day, with as many as 31 registered at 8am. It had three Covid patients in ICU beds.