The National Lead for Integrated Care with the Health Service Executive has said she could not say with certainty if all deaths for Covid-19 in nursing homes and care centres were reported as such.
Dr Siobhán Ní Bhriain said they are looking at the possibility that at the early stage of the virus outbreak there may have been a few deaths that occurred that "were not typically Covid in terms of symptoms".
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, she said there is a system in place "to look back at all those deaths and we will be reviewing that." She said the HSE is trying to protect those in nursing homes and residential centres where there have been outbreaks of Covid-19 by cohorting patients.
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