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Oireachtas Covid Committee To Recommend Public Inquiry Into Covid Deaths Linked To Nursing Homes

Rebecca Noonan
Rebecca Noonan

11:21 3 Oct 2020


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That's according to the Irish Times

The paper says it has seen a draft of the committee's final report.

The report states that the State "failed to recognise the level of risk posed to those in nursing homes".

It says the inquiry should examine the "large-scale discharge of patients from acute hospitals" as well as "decision-making around those discharges".

It also states that a recommendation made in March by the National Public Health Emergency Team that visitor bans to nursing homes were "premature" should be examined.


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