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