Technological University of the Shannon is to hand out over 70,000 free antigen tests to students over the next month.
The new testing programme began in the Athlone campus at the end of last week as students completed their first week back to third level education following the Christmas break.
Under the scheme, each student will receive five tests to help manage the spread of the current variant of Covid-19.
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The move is part of part of the government's €9 million fund to make antigen testing easily accessible to third-level students.
Students at TUS's Athlone campus can collect their antigen testing kits from the TUS Students' Union, the university library and the engineering building atrium.
