More than 120 health care workers were identified with Covid-19 in the past week as transmission levels increase throughout the nation, new figures show.
The increase of 121 healthcare cases reported by the Health Protection Security Centre (HPSC) comes as Beaumont Healthcare facility in Dublin was forced to close wards after a little number of patients and staff evaluated favorable for the infection.
An extra 30 patients were hospitalised with Covid-19 over the previous week, according to the HPSC information, while two more clients were admitted to ICU.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) claimed the rate of infection amongst health care workers could be even higher because asymptomatic cases are not being picked up.
” When a positive case is determined in an acute medical facility, all staff are not checked. We do not think screening believed close contacts goes far adequate thinking about the normal movements of staff throughout a hospital in any one day,” stated INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha.
She said derogated authority had actually been offered to health service supervisors to permit departure from the two-week 14- day seclusion for health care employees returning from nations listed as requiring 14 days self-isolation.
” We do not think this is safe and supplying temperature level testing is not enough considering what we know about asymptomatic positives.”
The number of cases amongst older people is also increasing, with 21 more people aged over 65 diagnosed with the infection during the week. There was a boost of seven cases in the 65-74 age variety, giving a cumulative overall of594
Dublin
A further 138 verified cases of Covid-19 were reported by the National Public Health Emergency Group (NPHET) on Sunday evening. This brings the total number of cases in the Republic to 29,672
No brand-new deaths were reported, leaving the overall death toll at 1,777
Some 68 of the new cases reported were in Dublin, 13 were in Limerick, and 9 each in Galway and Kildare. There were also five cases in Wexford and Wicklow, while the remaining 24 cases were divided between 14 other counties.
Of Sunday’s cases, 59 are guys, and 79 are ladies. Two-thirds are aged under 45 years.
Only 39 per cent are validated to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case. Twenty-three of the 138 cases included community transmission, implying the source of the infection is unclear.
The 14- day incidence of Covid-19 in Ireland has actually increased to 33.2 per 100,000 population, the 11 th highest out of 31 nations kept an eye on by the European Centre for Disease Control.
Spain has the greatest 14- day incidence of the virus in Europe, at 240.6, followed by France at 118.9.
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