The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) and the Irish Refugee Council have again raised concerns about residents of direct provision centres sharing living spaces, following reports of more than two dozen cases of Covid-19 at one centre linked to a cluster at a Kildare factory.
MASI is reporting that there have been 31 cases of coronavirus at the Eyre Powell Centre in Newbridge. The Department of Justice has not confirmed this figure.
Eyre Powell is one of three direct provision centres where a number of residents worked at the Irish Dog Foods factory in Naas.
A coronavirus cluster was confirmed at the factory this week. "A lot of the people who have tested positive are sharing bedrooms with other strangers," Bulelani Mfaco of MASI