Army on standby to assist HSE as soldiers erect tents at the Mercy Hospital in Cork

Margarte McKiernan, Director of Nursing, MUH and Capt Paul Finnegan, Ordnance and Engineering, 1 Brigade with Irish Defence Force personnel from 1 Brigade and The Irish Naval Service erecting Multi-Purpose Tactical Soft Shelters (MPTSSs) outside the Mercy University Hospital at Grenville Place, Cork City in support of the HSE’s Covid-19 treatment strategy at the city centre hospital. Photo: Larry Cummins

The army has started to ramp up its aid to the HSE in Cork by erecting tents outside a hospital, ferrying suspected Covid-19 cases to test centres and providing additional ambulances and personnel to the National Ambulance Service.