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Public Health doctor and Castlerea native praises old and young during the pandemic Sunday, July 18, 2021   Pictured is Castlerea native Dr Una Fallon, Director of Public Health HSE Midlands. Pic. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland     The Director of Public Health in the HSE Midlands and a Castlerea native has asked people to continue to adhere to public health guidance, saying that a potential fourth wave of Covid-19 is here. Dr Una Fallon told the Herald that the HSE is continuing to deal w...

REVEALED: The number of people vaccinated at Offaly centre in May REVEALED: The number of people vaccinated at Offaly centre in May Reporter: );  ); A TOTAL of 11,218 people were vaccinated at the vaccination and testing centre in the Tullamore Court Hotel during May. According to figures released on Friday last, 1,387 were vaccinated at the centre in the first days of June. HSE Staff at vaccination and testing centres throughout Midlands Louth Meath have taken 106,000 swabs since February  ...

More than 15,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at the Laois vaccination hub in Portlaoise since it opened in April while over 65,000 have receive...

Public health advice on protecting schools and students

Public health advice also for primary schools in Laios and other counties

Spread of Covid-19 from shop worker led to 54 people becoming infected Doctor fears close contacts will think Covid tracing are hoax calls linked to cyberattack about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 2:45 The case study by public health doctors in the midlands shows how onward transmission can spread the virus into different settings from close contacts. Photogra...

While numbers fully vaccinated remain low, focus must remain on controlling spread of infection, Nphet warns

“There’s a lot of testing around it now and there will be knock-on tentacles,” said Dr Fallon. “It’s early days but source investigation might uncover what you might call super-spreader events; an event like a party or people who have been to a shebeen or a big household gathering. “I think we are missing that currently. I don’t think people volunteer that [information], but we probed and asked... I think that is the advantage of what the contact tracers are doing now.” Plans f...

Enhanced contact tracing will aid in the uncovering of secret ‘super-spreader events’, such as family parties and social gatherings, which are fuelling the stubborn levels of Covid infection.   The new regime of tracing cases back seven days is finding ‘missing links’ explaining why infection numbers are not falling faster. Dr Una Fallon, Director of Public Health, HSE Midlands, said the new process, which was added to the national contact-tracing protocol just last week, would help...

The pop-up hubs will operate for seven days in the Dublin locations and for five in all the others, except for the centre in Ballinasloe that will only be running for three days.  The tests are free for anyone over the age of 16 and anyone living within 5km of a centre is being encouraged to attend.  As of the latest Covid-19 figures, Co Offaly remains the county with the highest infection rate in the country. It is followed by Donegal and then Dublin.  In Tullamore, the 14-day incidence rat...