A consultant in intensive care at the region’s main hospital says the Midwest is more prepared for a second wave of COVID 19 should it arrive.
259 cases of the virus have been confirmed in this region in the last 14 days – 33 of these in Clare.
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It comes as the National Public Health Emergency Team says local lockdown’s not the first course of action for the five counties being monitored closely by public health officials – which include Limerick and Tipperary.
Dr Catherine Motherway, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at UHL, says they are now able to detect cases quicker than previously.
