Covid Hospital Numbers At Their Highest For More Than A Year

There have been an additional 5,452 PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 8,644 positive antigen tests recorded through the HSE portal today.

There are many reports of people getting a positive antigen test and not notifying the HSE.

Paul Cullen - Health Editor, Irish Times, Fiona O’Malley - CEO of Turn2Me and Anthony Staines - Chair of Health Systems, School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University joined the Last Word to discuss.

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