Covid-19: 60 CUH staff ordered to self-isolate as HSE urges public to stop calling 999 for information

The HSE’s national director of acute operations, Liam Woods, has issued an appeal to the public not to call emergency numbers 999 or 112 when seeking information about the coronavirus.

Update: More than 60 staff at Cork University Hospital have been asked to self-isolate due to coronavirus.

A crisis management team has been launched at the hospital where a middle-aged male patient is being treated in isolation for Covid-19.