A further seven people have begun treatment for COVID-19 at University Hospital Limerick in the past 24 hours.
Latest HSE figures show 54 people with the virus are in UHL this morning – a number which has more than trebled in a week.
There are now eight people in the Dooradoyle facility receiving critical care, which is the joint highest in the country.
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It comes as overcrowding at the hospital remains the highest in the country.
54 patients are waiting for a bed as of this morning according to the INMO – 44 of these in the emergency department.
