Covid-19: Nursing home report finds one facility had three residents die in 12-hour period

Facilities must have the ability and space to isolate residents, according to the report. File picture: PA

A Government report on nursing homes found that one facility had three residents died in a single 12-hour period, and another three within a further 48 hours.

Staff are quoted in the report saying: "What were we to do?" as when Covid-19 got into the facility, it seemed to spread with "undue haste" and that staffing levels were overstretched due to illness and the need to isolate: "Something that still causes many of the staff concerned ongoing distress and guilt."