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Record numbers in hospital with Covid-19

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Health Service Executive Chief Executive Paul Reid has said Ireland has exceeded the peak level of the first wave of the pandemic, with 921 people now in hospital. "Healthy people are getting very sick.

Everyone gets how serious this is now. Let's all do what's needed, turn this around, save lives, whilst the vaccine arrives.

We have to." The last record of 881 hospitalisations was on 15 April last year. Overnight HSE data also shows there are 75 people in ICU, with 42 patients on ventilators.

The figures show that there are 22 adult ICU beds available in the public hospital system for care. It is a reduction of 15 ICU beds on the situation yesterday.

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