I’ve been hard at it, but still don’t know.
It’s complicated you see.
Here are two ways it’s complicated.
The first is how we report the number of new cases each day. The second is how we report the number of new hospitalisations.
Every day people test positive for Covid inside our hospitals, but the term “hospital acquired infection” has a very specific meaning.
It only applies to people admitted to hospital for a non-Covid illness who test positive on day seven of their stay or afterwards. It’s the formal ECDC (European Centre Disease Control) definition and I’ve no dispute with this. If you test positive on days one to six, you probably came in with the disease.
Minister for Defence and Clare native, Tony Killeen, laying a wreath at the site on the Glenwood Ambush as the 90th anniversary was marked in 2011. Also pictured are Fr Harry Bohan and members of the Glenwood Ambush Memorial Committee.
Remembering the Glenwood Ambush of 1921
January 18, 2021
PLANS to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Glenwood ambush on Wednesday next, January 20, have now been deferred to later in the year in compliance with Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions.
A very scaled down commemorative event will take place on the anniversary, however, with the lighting of a memorial lamp and the flying of a tricolour.