Kerry has the highest positivity rate for COVID-19 nationally.
The county's positivity rate stands at 19%; nationally the positivity rate at community testing sites is 11.8%.
That's up from 6.8% five weeks ago.
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The figures were revealed by HSE National Lead for Testing and Tracing Niamh O'Beirne at a HSE briefing this afternoon.
When the community testing and acute hospital testing, which includes a lot of asymptomatic testing, are combined, the overall positivity rate nationally stands at 9.6%.
Niamh O'Beirne says Kerry's rate is much higher:
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