Nurses: Covid-19 should be reported as a workplace injury

Almost 10,000 healthcare workers have contracted Covid-19, accounting for over one-fifth of all cases confirmed in Ireland to date.

As the number of healthcare workers infected with Covid-19 nears 10,000, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has reiterated the call for work-related infections and deaths to be reported to the Health and Safety Authority (HSA).

In recent months, the INMO and Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI), both of which sit on the HSA board, called for existing legislation to be updated to make Covid-19 a notifiable workplace injury, according to information obtained by the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act.