Devastating Covid-19 outbreak claims more lives at Laois nursing home but many residents now post-Covid
Stradbally nursing home management praise staff and people of Laois and extends sympathies to families
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Covid-19 has claimed more lives in the fourth week of an outbreak at a Laois nursing home where eleven people have died and a small number of patients are still unwell.
Mr Gearóid Brennan, Chief Executive of the Brookhaven Healthcare Group that runs the home, confirmed the eleventh death in a statement which outlined the status of the outbreak end extended sympathies to families on their devastating loss.
Eleven deaths at Co Laois nursing home in two weeks
Updated / Monday, 18 Jan 2021
18:25
Midlands Correspondent
Another elderly resident has died with Covid-19 at Droimnín Nursing Home in Stradbally, Co Laois, bringing to 11 the number of deaths at the centre in the last two weeks.
The latest death on Saturday was confirmed today by chief executive Gearóid Brennan of Brookhaven Healthcare, which runs Droimnín and four other nursing homes.
In a statement to local media Mr Brennan said: I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the families of the eleven residents who have died. This has been a devastating time for them.