Members of Cork Traveller community offered 'emergency accommodation' after Covid-19 outbreak

The outbreak of Covid-19 has occurred at the Spring Lane site, Blackpool, Cork city. Picture: Larry Cummins

Members of the Traveller community in Cork have been offered "emergency accommodation" to self-isolate following an outbreak of Covid-19 in one of the country’s most over-crowded halting sites.

The outbreak, at the Spring Lane site in Ballyvolane on the northside of Cork city, is one of three outbreaks in the Irish Traveller community in the first week of this year, and among 47 open outbreaks in the community, which are being managed by public health specialists.