Healthcare worker pleads with minister to open regional Covid-19 isolation centres

The worker was told they would have to relocate to Citywest hotel in Dublin from Cork after testing positive for the virus.
Healthcare worker pleads with minister to open regional Covid-19 isolation centres

Citywest Hotel, where the country's only public self-isolation facility is located. File Picture.

The government has been asked to set up regional self-isolation centres after a Cork-based healthcare worker who had been using temporary HSE accommodation to remain on the Covid-19 frontline was told to relocate to Dublin for self-isolation after testing positive for the virus.

The worker, one of several who has been availing of temporary accommodation in the Kingsley Hotel in Cork under agreed protocols with the HSE, has now pleaded directly with the Health Minister to intervene.

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