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Two suspected COVID 19 cases being treated in UHW today.

Two suspected COVID 19 cases being treated in UHW today.
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Latest figures released by the HSE show there are two suspected COVID-19 cases in Critical Care Units at University Hospital Waterford.

There are no confirmed cases in ICU.

There are 4 suspected cases waiting results.

There's 4 vacant Critical care beds and 71 vacant general beds in UHW at the moment.

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Over 26-thousand eight hundred people have now tested positive for covid-19 on the island of Ireland.

Up to Thursday there are 143 confirmed cases to date in Waterford since the outbreak began, an increase of three on the previous day.

 

Meanwhile nationally 18 more coronavirus patients are known to have died in the Republic, and four in the North.

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Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team announced yesterday 219 more people had tested positive for coronavirus inthe Republic.

There have now been 22,760 confirmed cases south of the border, and 1,446 people are known to have died.

Earlier in the day, their counterparts at the Northern Ireland department of health also released updated figures.

There were four further deaths and 56 new confirmed cases.

It brings the death tolll there to 430 and the total number infected to four thousand and seventy eight.

The biggest concentration of cases on the island is in Dublin, where there were ten thousand nine hundred and forty-eight people known to be infected in the most recent data available.

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