Row over alleged under-reporting of Covid-19 figures leave HSE and Mater hospital at loggerheads

A row over the alleged under-reporting of Covid-19 infections at one of the country’s largest hospitals has descended into a game of finger-pointing with the HSE and the hospital in question apparently at loggerheads.

On Thursday evening the chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team Dr Tony Holohan informed the public that a hospital had under-reported the number of its infections by a figure of 244.