Covid-19: Nursing home 'feeling alone and helpless' after two staff left to care for residents

Seven of the eight nursing staff and 10 of the 11 care assistants at the Nightingale nursing home in, Co Galway, also tested positive. One resident has died and two others are being treated in hospital.

“We were abandoned...and nobody cares” — that was the damning verdict of the director of nursing at a home where 25 out of 27 residents tested positive for Covid 19.

Patricia MacGabhann was forced to take to the national airwaves to plead for help and said elderly residents in private nursing homes have been forgotten about.