The HSE has announced this morning that 5,000 people in Dublin and Sligo will be asked to take an antibody test to help determine how much of the population have been exposed to coronavirus. Dr Cillian de Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory and Chair of the Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group at the Department of Health's National Public Health Emergency Team joined us on the show to tell us about this antibody test.

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