The Head of the Intensive Care Unit at the region’s main hospital says teenagers are in ICU departments across the country with Covid-19.
The age of patients with Covid in intensive care ranges from 17 to 88 years old.
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402 people are currently being treated in hospitals across the country for the virus, 73 of whom are in intensive care.
The Department of Health says 70 percent of Covid patients in ICU have not been fully vaccinated and Intensive Care Consultant at University Hospital Limerick, Dr Catherine Motherway says doctors are treating a lot of young people:

