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
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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.
Nursing home group Carechoice has bought a 60-bedroom facility in Co Kildare in a deal thought to be worth about â¬10 million.
Carechoice owns and runs nursing homes around the Republic, including in counties Dublin, Cork, Meath and Waterford.
The company confirmed on Thursday that it has bought Elm Hall nursing home and retirement village, a 60-bedroom facility in Celbridge, Co Kildare, boosting its presence in the region around Dublin to seven properties.
Carechoice did not reveal the price, however, based on previous deals done by the chain in the capital, the transaction is likely to have been valued at about â¬10 million.