Munster hospital group cancels all elective work

Cork University Hospital, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The South/South West Hospital Group, which includes Cork University Hospital, has cancelled all elective work and said critically ill patients may be transferred between hospitals as the Covid-19 surge continues.

This comes as ten staff at a mental health unit in Cork are ill with Covid-19. Some, who isolated at a hotel under an HSE agreement while waiting on test results, were asked to leave on testing positive.