Seventeen people who are still at a residential centre in Co Laois where eight patients died last weekend after testing positive for Covid-19 will have their conditions reviewed by medical consultants from the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, the Health Service Executive has said.
Additional personal protection equipment has also been provided to staff at Maryborough Centre, St Fintan's Hospital, which is a long stay centre dealing with psychiatry of later life.
The HSE said that even though some staff are absent on sick leave at the Maryborough Centre they have brought in additional workers to help manage the facility.