Coronavirus patients could be moved out of Dublin if hospital capacity exceeded

Intensive care units in a number of the capital’s hospitals are at capacity

Critically-ill coronavirus patient may be transferred from Dublin to other hospitals if intensive care capacity is exceeded in the capital, a senior HSE official said.

National director of acute operations at the HSE, Liam Woods, was responding to concerns raised by medics in several Dublin hospitals that they were running out of beds in ICU units.