150 buildings account for half of Covid-19 workplace outbreaks

The Oireachtas Committee on Health will hear that most transmission of coronavirus "is not from hands touching surfaces, it is from inhaling infected air". File photo: Pexels

More than half of the Covid-19 outbreaks in workplaces in Ireland occurred in just 150 buildings, a Dáil committee will hear on Wednesday.

The Oireachtas Committee on Health will hear that some 3,492 of the 6,559 workplace cases, or 53%, of the virus were concentrated in less than 200 meat, fish, or poultry factories or other food plants.