Covid-19: Laois nursing home emerges from outbreak that led to 17 deaths
Challenge of supporting facilities experiencing outbreaks ‘very significant’, HSE says
Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 21:57
Some 71,600 first dose vaccinations have been administered in nursing homes and other long-term residential care facilities. Photograph: iStock
A Co Laois nursing home hit by a “horrendous” Covid-19 outbreak that led to the deaths of 17 residents in just 20 days was “through it now”, the healthcare manager behind the home has said.
The surviving 48 residents at Droimnín Nursing Home in Stradbally, all of whom caught the virus during the post-Christmas outbreak, have emerged from post-Covid 14-day isolation.