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Hospitals move to surge plans to cope with Covid cases

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The number of new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland has declined over the last few days, but the Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE said the strain on the health service will intensify even more.

Dr Colm Henry said that even if those cases "peak and fall" over the coming days, we will see "a hospital system that has never been so stretched, in 11 months of a pandemic, and perhaps never in a more precarious position".

His warning comes as the number of Covid related deaths reported on a single day reached a record high of 93 today. Today's figure means that 434 people with Covid-19 have died so far this month, and it's only 19 January. "Sadly, there will be more", said Dr Henry, as continuing high levels of disease in the community feeds through

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