Some worst case projections within the Health Service Executive have suggested that the number of patients, requiring intensive care, could rise to a peak of 546 a day, by around mid-April.
Modelling of various scenarios is continuing and is not complete. One scenario presented to officials, and seen by RTÉ News, has projected the peak number of patients a day requiring acute care at 1,328 on April 11.
Under that scenario, the peak number of patients requiring intensive care a day would be 546 by April 13. Some experts believe this scale of cases is unlikely to be seen, because of the stay at home and other major measures announced by Government and recommended last Friday, by the National Public Health Emergency Team and because the number