HIQA monitoring funeral notice website to identify unconfirmed Covid-19 cases

The National Public Health Emergency Team’said that the State’s reporting of the coronavirus “gives a complete picture of the mortality rates”, and that HIQA’s analysis had shown that “excess mortality is largely explained by Covid-19”. Photo: File photo

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has been monitoring funeral notice website Rip.ie in a bid to locate and identify any previously un-notified incidences of Covid-19 in Ireland.

As part of its contribution to the National Public Health Emergency Team’s (NPHET) recent paper comparing mortality rates from the coronavirus in Ireland and other countries, HIQA stated that its analysis of the website had indicated “there is no ‘pocket’ of unknown undocumented mortality”.