University Hospital Limerick is continuing to experience severe overcrowding today, with 64 patients on trolleys according to the INMO.
That makes up over a third of the national total of 179, with St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny the next worst affected facility on 19.
There are 21 people with Covid-19 receiving hospital treatment at UHL, and a further seven at South Tipp General in Clonmel.
Nationally, there are 359 people with the virus in Irish hospitals including 87 in intensive care.
