A number of ambulances have been called to assist sailors on board a quarantined ship docked off of Moneypoint today.
It’s understood that a small number of the approximately 20 people on board the cargo vessel have been taken to hospital.
Other workers on the coal ship, which travelled to West Clare from Russia, are believed to be in quarantine for COVID related reasons, with public health officials in the region assisting with the matter.
Public Health Midwest Statement:
The Department of Public Health Mid-West does not comment on individual cases or outbreaks. To do so would breach our duty of confidentiality to both the individuals and organisations concerned.
Maintaining this confidentiality is not only an ethical requirement for the HSE, it is also a legal requirement under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018.
Public Health Mid-West can, however, explain its role and function in the event of a COVID-19 situation at a workplace when it does arise.
Under legislation, all cases of notifiable infectious diseases, including COVID, are notified to the Department of Public Health.
Mid-West cases are notified nationally to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre electronically via the Computerised Infectious Diseases Database (CIDR).
The Department advises workplaces and all relevant stakeholders on the management of individual cases and the prevention and control of outbreaks.
Management of outbreaks and situations includes exclusion of staff who are infected or those identified as close contacts of cases, isolation of cases, and additional testing of staff may also be necessary, depending on the extent of an outbreak.
