HIQA: Shared rooms posed 'high risk' for Covid spread at 19 community and nursing home facilities

Midleton Community Hospital was among the facilities referred to by HIQA.

Close to 20 publicly-funded community and nursing home facilities were identified as “centres of concern” for infection control by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) at the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak, five of which were located in Co Cork.