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Number of coronavirus clusters now at 260

Rebecca Noonan
Rebecca Noonan

11:01 7 Apr 2020


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The number of clusters of the coronavirus has risen to 260.

67 are in nursing homes, 45 in hospitals and 32 are in residential settings.

More than 5,300 cases of the infection have been confirmed here and 174 people have lost their lives.

Dublin has the highest number of cases, followed by Cork and then Kildare.

President of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland, Dr Catherine Motherway, says some critical care units are under pressure.

"At the moment we certainly have capacity in the system.

"Dublin is under pressure but they still have surge capacity.

"Some of the Dublin hospitals have had to transfer patients to other hospitals, so Dublin is under pressure and the northwest has had to transfer some patients.

"Those in the east, and the south and the midwest do have normal capacity in our normal ICU numbers."


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