Vulnerable woman threatened to procure and infect people with Covid-19, court hears

A vulnerable young woman with a traumatic history who is regarded as a "very serious" risk to certain persons has threatened to procure the infection of another person with Covid-19, the High Court has heard.

Psychiatrists say the 18-year-old woman needs to be placed in a medium secure care unit but all such units approached to date are unwilling to take her and the search for an appropriate place, extending to units in the UK, continues, Barry O'Donnell SC, for the Child and Family Agency said.