CUH director: Cancellation of elective treatments necessary to deal with growing Covid numbers 

“The advice is simple - stay isolated, keep out of the way of other people, this is a human to human spread, we need people to do the right thing and society to show moral responsibility.”

Meanwhile, it was reported yesterday that staff of all grades in a Covid-19 unit of Cork University Hospital are on sick leave after contracting the virus or as they await test results, it has been revealed.

The clinical director of Cork University Hospital, Professor Conor Deasy has said that it was inevitable that elective treatments would be cancelled as Covid numbers grow and hospital staff are unavailable because they too have the virus.

People needed to do the right thing and society had to show moral responsibility, he urged.