Nine Elderly Residents At Laois Care Centre Die In One Weekend

All residents are now being treated as covid-19 positive.

Nine people at one residential centre in Laois died over the course of the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend.

Eight of the deceased at the Maryborough Centre of Psychiatry of Old Age in Portlaoise had tested positive for covid-19.

They were aged between 66 and 84.

Additional staff were redeployed to the 28-bed facility last week, and the HSE says the remaining seventeen residents are being managed as if Covid-19 positive regardless of test results or the presence of symptoms.

All residents have been medically reviewed by consultants from Portlaoise Regional Hospital.

HSE is expressing its sincere sympathies to the families and friends of the deceased.

Amanda Phelan, Professor of Ageing and Community Nursing, at Trinity College Dublin, says the situation in nursing homes has been chaotic:

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