The Chief Medical Officer has urged parents to keep their sick children home from school.
The healthcare system is straining under a "perfect storm" of flu season, high numbers of Covid infections and RSV. There were a record 931 patients waiting for hospital beds across the country's acute healthcare settings yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
There are currently seeing high levels of ‘flu and COVID-19 and although cases of RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus) appear to be decreasing, the three respiratory viruses accounted for more than 1,200 hospitalisations last week. And CMO Professor Breda Smyth warned the reopening of childcare facilities and schools will lead to more transmission.
