'Our health system alone cannot get us out of this': HSE chief urges public to help reduce virus spread

HSE CEO Paul Reid said the Winter Plan will be published very shortly. Picture: Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The HSE’s director general Paul Reid has said that no health system in the world could cope with one third of its bed capacity being taken up with Covid-19 patients.

Speaking on RTÉ radio’s News at One, Mr Reid said that better resourced health systems elsewhere in Europe were also under pressure.