The reduction in the number of patients with Covid-19 in hospital has stalled and there are early warning signals the "brakes have been put on improvement" in curbing the spread of the virus, the HSE warned today. HSE chief Paul Reid said there was an increase of 9 per cent in people being tested for the virus in the past week . He was speaking as the HSE said it would resume the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible. Meanwhile, HSE chief operations officer Ann O'Connor said some healthcare workers have received a Covid-19 vaccine out of sequence although they were not eligible on priority grounds. "We see the fall in infections in health care setting and the collapse in infection in healthcare workers.

Source: Irish Independent March 18, 2021 18:20 UTC