Covid-19: 1,378 more cases and 23 deaths; only 24 beds remain available in intensive care

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,378 new cases of Covid-19 and 23 deaths.

There have now been a total of 187,554 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 2,970 deaths related to the virus in Ireland.

According to rte

The Chief Executive Officer of the HSE, Paul Reid said 24 beds remain available in intensive care and that eight hospitals have reached their surge capacity.

“Talking to the ICU consultants, I think there’s been huge learning the past three weeks about what we’re seeing. And firstly it is that we are seeing huge difference in terms of delayed exits from our ICU, and indeed, sadly, increased mortality.

“If you look at the pipeline of patients potentially coming into ICU, there are still 430 patients who are receiving critical care outside of the ICU. They would be retrieving various levels of advanced respiratory support. Two-thirds of those would generally be discharged at some point in time, but one-third would possibly go through ICU or indeed sadly in some cases mortality,” he said.

“There’s a very significant, unfortunately, pipeline we would see continuing into ICU. And I would expect that we will see ICU numbers probably holding if not growing in the coming days, and that’s a real challenge for us.”

Credit https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0123/1191607-coronavirus-numbers/

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