The Health Service Executive is this evening taking over a north Kerry nursing home on foot of a court order sought at Listowel District Court this morning.
Susan Cliff, deputy chief inspector of social services with HIQA, told the court a HSE team entered Oaklands nursing home, Derry, Listowel on 4 November on foot of residents testing positive for Covid-19.
They found "a centre in chaos" with residents "wandering unsupervised" and those who tested positive were mingling with non-positive residents.
Some staff had tested positive and were asymptomatic and residents were not notified. Residents with "classic" Covid-19 symptoms - coughs and temperatures - were not being monitored. "Alarm bells should have been firing off in this centre and