Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Can we have a breakdown of the number of people who died in public nursing homes over the past two months? The last time the numbers worked out at 80:20. Up to 80% of nursing homes are in the private sector and 20% in the public sector. Has there been any variation from those numbers?
Are there any new challenges in the nursing homes that were not there in the first outbreak of Covid? Ms O'Neill referred to about 30% of nursing homes having had Covid outbreaks. Why does she think that occurred and what contributed to that?
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