All residents and staff in long term residential care units are to be tested for Covid-19 over the next seven to ten days, as part of an effort to tackle the spread of the virus in these settings.
The Chief Executive of the HSE Paul Reid said that 4,000 tests have already been completed. Richard Quinlan, Chief Ambulance Officer of the North Leinster Region for the National Ambulance Service addressed around 60 people this morning who will be visiting nursing homes and other care facilities, some of which have up to 300 people to be assessed.
This includes staff from the NAS, but also medics from the Defence Forces and healthcare workers from the HSE. More than 3,000 tests were done in the North Leinster region since Friday and this group