Over 16,000 Covid-19 cases recorded among nursing home residents

The new figures show the extent of the pandemic’s impact on the state’s most vulnerable.

More than 400 nursing homes or community long stay-units recorded outbreaks of Covid-19 during the pandemic with almost half experiencing more than one outbreak, according to new figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

More than 100 nursing homes fought outbreaks of Covid-19 in both the first and third wave of the pandemic, with eleven nursing homes hit with several outbreaks within a single wave.