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Academics urged to participate in pilot Covid-19 tests

    

Ireland-wide project will deliver rapid testing and wastewater checks on campus

Higher education minister Simon Harris has urged higher education staff to volunteer for a Covid-19 rapid testing pilot on college campuses.

The project, dubbed UniCoV, aims to conduct a large-scale analysis of testing technologies for Covid-19 surveillance and prevention in higher education. These will include rapid antigen testing, saliva-based PCR testing and wastewater surveillance.

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