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Staff at NI hospital self-isolate over positive Covid-19 cases

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Twenty members of staff at Craigavon Hospital in Co Armagh are self-isolating after colleagues tested positive for Covid-19.

The Southern Health Trust has confirmed that three staff members at the hospital's respiratory emergency department have tested positive for the virus and 20 members of staff were self-isolating as a precaution.

In a statement, the Trust said any other members of staff who have been in close contact with the confirmed cases are being tested and are currently at home isolating as a precaution.  "At this stage it is understood that the infection may have transferred in a social setting, ie not within the Emergency Department," the Trust said.  "Staff in the ED wear full personal protective equipment when treating

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