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Updated: 4 Feb 2021, 14:15
IRELAND is in the grips of a “hidden epidemic” of mental health issues being caused by the Covid-19 crisis with children as young as 16 taking their own life, the Dail has heard.
The Dail heard that the HSE’s mental health website has seen an increase in hits by more than 490 per cent over the past year with one in six people in Ireland visiting the online support.
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Sinn Fein TD Paul Donnelly told the Dail of one family s shocking experience with mental health services during the pandemicCredit: Paddy Cummins - The Sun Dublin
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Some 28 residents in mental health services have died of Covid-19 since the pandemic beganCredit: PA:Press Association
Testing of close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases is to resume on Friday, the HSE said.
At the end of December testing of close contacts was suspended temporarily to prioritise testing of symptomatic cases.
It was a result of pressure on the testing system due to widespread community transmission seen in the third wave.
HSE chief executive Paul Reid said: “From tomorrow, close contacts of a confirmed case will be referred to a Covid-19 testing centre, for a test on day five.”
Mr Reid said there had been a “modest decline” in the number of people in hospitals with the virus, but said the health care system will not see the benefits of this “for some time to come”.