There's a proposal to subsidise the tests.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is set to propose a scheme which could make Antigen tests as cheap as €1.
The Sunday Times reports he'll bring a memo to cabinet proposing a government subsidy of up to €3 per test.
image via pixabay.comThe cost of a box of five tests at discount stores like Aldi and Lidl could drop from €20 to €5.
It's despite the CMO saying that people can't rely on the tests purely especially if they have symptoms.
Dr Tony Holohan also expressed concern that people aren't using them properly.
Holohan is also urging people to ration their social contacts and isolate if they have symptoms.
It comes as Saturday's covid cases reached 5,959, while today a further 4,181 were confirmed.
668 covid patients are in hospital, while 125 people are being treated in ICU.
That's the highest ICU figure reported since February.
Earlier this week, updated modelling revealed that up to 200-hundred thousand people could be infected with Covid next month if the growth of the virus continues at the current rate.
