Almost 2,000 nursing home staff on leave due to Covid-19

Over 570 outbreaks have occurred in nursing homes and community hospital or long stay units since January 3.

Almost 2,000 nursing home staff are on leave due to Covid-19, including workers from public, private, and voluntary homes.

As revealed by the HSE, there are Covid-19 open outbreaks in 181 nursing homes across the country. In the week from January 17 to January 23, a total of 27 new nursing home and five community hospital/long stay unit outbreaks were notified, according to figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).