Almost 20% of Covid-19 outbreaks reported nationally last week were in Cork and Kerry.
That’s according to figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
The weekly report showed 53 Covid-19 outbreaks were notified nationally in the week ending June 11th, an increase of 18 outbreaks on the previous week.
The HPSC weekly report on Covid showed there were 10 Covid-19 outbreaks reported in the HSE South region which comprises Cork and Kerry.
Three of these outbreaks were associated with residential institutions, three with ‘other healthcare services’, two were associated with hospitals and there was one new outbreak notified in a nursing home setting and one other in a community hospital/long stay unit setting.
The increase in outbreaks comes as 606 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported in the country's hospitals this morning.
As of 8am there were 153 more people in hospital with Covid today than there were last Monday.
