'Crisis situation' in many hospitals as up to 350 nurses redeployed to ICUs

Cork University Hospital. There were 1,803 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals across the country last night -  217 of whom were in intensive care units (ICUs). Picture Dan Linehan

The number of patients in hospitals is still too high, and smaller hospitals are struggling to cope. 

That's according to the HSE’s chief operations officer Anne O’Connor, who said that recent reductions in case numbers hadn't yet alleviated pressure on hospitals.