Limerick hospital's Covid outbreak receding

HSE chief executive Paul Reid said that fact showed that University of Limerick Hospital Group was “beginning to see the wash-through of the actions that they took”

HSE CEO Paul Reid during a weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19 at Dr Steevens Hospital, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney

A series of Covid-19 outbreaks within the University of Limerick Hospital Group has receded significantly in recent days.

Some 130 staff at the hospital group are absent from work due to either confirmed cases of Covid-19 or their being close contacts of same, a substantial reduction from the figure of 221 reported on Monday.