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Jasmine Norden & Anita McSorley

GP explains why everyone is sick right now with Covid-like symptoms but testing negative

Many people across Ireland are currently sick with Covid-like symptoms, but are testing negative for the virus.

You may have noticed a lot of anecdotal reports of people experiencing fever, a cough, fatigue and other typical coronavirus symptoms but antigen and PCR tests are showing negative for the virus. Currently, it seems like everyone is saying they know someone who is sick.

However, this is all word-of-mouth, so to get to the bottom of what is going on we looked at the latest Irish data available, while spoke to a local GP.

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