Hospital on 'full war alert' due to Covid-19 spike

While Beaumont Hospital has only one confirmed case of Covid in its Intensive Care Unit, it has capacity for just four further critical care patients. File image

Beaumont Hospital in Dublin is on “full war alert” over its Covid-19 situation as asymptomatic cases begin to stack up.

“Everything has been ramped up in the past two weeks,” Professor Bill Tormey, a specialist in chemical pathology at the hospital, said.