Covid Ireland figures today as new BA2 variant drives surge and Government gives restrictions update
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- 29 Mar 2022
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Almost 12,000 new Covid cases have been confirmed in Ireland amid concern about how the current surge could impact hospital numbers.
Officials reported 5,263 positive PCR tests and 6,466 positive antigen tests on Monday. There are 1,624 patients in hospital with Covid - a rise of 56 on Sunday - and of those, 54 are in ICU.
However, senior Government sources have told the Irish Mirror that they would expect up to 2,000 people in hospital “in the next week.”
Despite this, they played down suggestions there would be any significant movement from the Government to bring back any restrictions, saying the “only thing possible” is stricter messaging and rules on mask wearing - but they appeared to say it would serve as a “marginal benefit at this stage.”
It comes after a senior doctor described the current pressure on hospitals as the worst he’s seen in his entire career.
The president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, Dr Fergal Hickey, there are large numbers of patients on trolleys and hospitals are “teeming with Covid”. Read More...
