There are now 1,043 Covid-19 patients in hospital, the Health Service Executive's Chief Executive has said.
The hospitals with the highest numbers of Covid-19 patients are Beaumont in Dublin with 86, including ten in ICU; University Hospital Limerick is treating 78 patients with the virus, with six patients in ICU, while there are 71 people with Covid-19 at University Hospital Galway, with six in ICU. Mr Varadkar said he is confident that all private hospitals that made their intensive care unit capacity available to the public system in previous waves will do so in the third wave. Speaking to those who make decisions about private hospitals, Mr Varadkar said: "They understand medical ethics, and their staff are going to want you to make your ICU capacity available to us.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Donnelly said that alongside the 360,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine expected by the same time, the Government expects to have 470,000 vaccine doses by the end of March. He said that in previous times, we would be expecting a rapid reduction in cases by this weekend, however the new variant makes it harder to model when cases will now peak.
Hospitals worst ever week for overcrowding ? Oh no that was this time last year! Paul Reid couldnt blame the virus then.
And how in hell are smears unavailable? Shambles of a government
What’s the normal in icu in January.
Cos it's flu season..
That’s normal for this time of the year