El ministro de Deportes, Francisco Camacho, la Primera Dama, Raquel Arbaje, Ramón Jiménez, presidente del Centro Comunitario y la Senadora del Distrito, Rafide Raful, dan el palazo inicial para dejar iniciados los trabajos del Centro Deportivo Comunitario en el Barrio Capotillo.
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El ministro de Deportes y Recreación, Francisco Camacho, y la primera dama, Raquel Arbaje, dieron comienzo este jueves a los trabajos de construcción del Centro Deportivo Comunitario del sector Capotillo, de la capital, a un costo de 10 millones de pesos.
Camacho, al pronunciar las palabras centrales, proclamó: «Capotillo, llegó tu momento, aquí estamos y jamás saldremos de aquí, porque hemos venido a dar soluciones a los problemas deportivos”.
Covid walk-in test programme extended as two new centres open Celbridge opens facility with Tullamore to follow as 42,900 people have been tested since programme began
about 4 hours ago Updated: about 3 hours ago
The Health Service Executive’s walk-in test centre programme for Covid-19 is being extended, with two new locations opening this week and the operation of existing centres being prolonged.
More than 42,900 people have been tested in the centres since they began last month, with 1,416 positive results – a positivity rate of 3.4 per cent.
A new centre opened in Celbridge, Co Kildare, on Monday and a second centres opens in Tullamore, Co Offaly, on Wednesday.
Positive Covid-19 cases at walk-in test centres surpass 1,000 Tracers reporting rising number of people with more close contacts, says HSE official
about 8 hours ago There are five pop-up centres in operation: at Tallaght Stadium, at Cumann Naomh Peregrine in Mulhuddart, at Parnells GAA Club in Coolock and at St Catherine’s Community Sports Centre in The Liberties in Dublin and at the HSE primary care centre in Cahir, Co Tipperary. File photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
The number of people to have tested positive for Covid-19 at walk-in testing centres for the asymptomatic people has surpassed the 1,000 mark.
In the four weeks since the HSE first opened the centres, some 1,062 people have tested positive for the disease out of 36,500 tested, giving a positivity rate of almost 3 per cent nationally.
Vaccination registration opens for people aged 68
Updated / Friday, 16 Apr 2021
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The facility is available through HSE.ie and HSE-Live on 1850-24-1850.
The HSE said that it would take three weeks to administer first dose vaccines to 65 to 69-year-olds and a further three weeks for the 60 to 64-year-olds, but that they will all be done by the end of May.
Meanwhile, the first of four new temporary walk-in Covid-19 test centres will open later this morning in Dublin.
The new centres are opening between now and Sunday.
Three are in Dublin - at Parnell s GAA Club on Main Street in Coolock opening today, St Catherine s Community Sports Centre in the Liberties from tomorrow, and Tallaght Stadium from Sunday.