Nursing Homes Ireland and two Cork hospitals bring in visitor restrictions over Covid-19 fears

Emergency medicine consultant Dr Fergal Hickey has said that having coronavirus patients in an emergency department is similar to “bringing a drum of petrol to a house fire.”

Nursing Homes Ireland and two Cork hospitals bring in visitor restrictions over Covid-19 fears

Emergency medicine consultant Dr Fergal Hickey has said that having coronavirus patients in an emergency department is similar to “bringing a drum of petrol to a house fire.”

It comes as 60 staff at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have been asked to self-isolate after a case of the coronavirus at the hospital.

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