Patient and staff member test positive for virus at University Hospital Limerick

An “Outbreak Control Team” has been established at University Hospital Limerick after one patient and one member of staff on a ward tested positive for coronavirus today, a hospital spokesman has confirmed.

“Contact tracing and testing is currently underway and all appropriate infection prevention and control measures are being followed in line with the national HPSC guidance,” a UHL spokesman said. The hospital said that it had completed “initial testing of all patient contacts” and this “has not identified further cases”.All patients on the ward in question have been informed of the outbreak,” the spokesman said.

UL Hospitals Group urged patients to assist it “by continuing to follow public health advice and to continuing to co-operate with the visiting restrictions across all six of our hospitals”.The hospital’s emergency department is consistently the most overcrowded in the country.A UL Hospitals Group spokesman said today’s “outbreak” at UHL “occurs at a time when emergency presentations to the ED in UHL have been exceeding pre-pandemic levels”.

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