Covid-19 outbreak at Kildare nursing home claims nine lives Virus infects 40 residents and 40 staff at Beech Park nursing home since mid-January
Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 06:00
The HSE is in the process of delivering the second dose of the two-dose vaccine to nursing-home residents and staff. Photograph: Jim Wilson/New York Times
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A Covid-19 outbreak at a Co Kildare nursing home has claimed the lives of nine residents and led to a further 31 becoming infected in addition to 40 cases among staff.
Covid-19: Two more residents die at Royal Hospital Donnybrook Outbreaks in nursing homes up to 193, with 4,300 positive cases in homes last month
Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 09:21 Updated: Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 11:38
Nursing Homes Ireland chief executive Tadhg Daly. Photograph: Oireachtas TV
Two further residents have died during a Covid-19 outbreak in the Royal Hospital Donnybrook, where more than a quarter of the residents had contracted the virus during an outbreak in early January.
In total five residents have died with Covid-19, after 23 of the 81 residents tested positive last month.
The south Dublin facility provides step-down rehabilitation care for patients following treatment or surgery in St Vincent’s Hospital, as well as a number of nursing home wards.