The Whiteabbey facility would provide an additional 100 regional intermediate care beds to tend to patients coming out of more serious treatment.
At the height of the pandemic in the North a Nightingale facility was set up in the tower block of City Hospital in centralThe North’s chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride told reporters that the ages of people testing positive for the virus was changing. Two-thirds of those now coming down with Covid-19 were aged under 40. He said just ten per cent of cases now were happening to people aged 60 and over compared to that age cohort suffering 40-50 per cent of cases in March.
Mr Swann and Dr McBride acknowledged that the testing system currently was under strain, particularly with parents of children returning to school anxious to have them tested for Covid-19. “If your child needs a test they will be tested,” he said. Dr McBride said the testing system was working well, notwithstanding the current pressures. “We are testing more per 100,000 of population than any other part of these islands,” he said.
Dr McBride also said that there was little doubt that with schools returning there would be “clusters of cases associated with schools”. He said the cases would be associated “not necessarily” with the school environment but could be linked to activities associated with school, happening “on the way to school, before school, and after school as much as what happens in school”.
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