The HSE is to start testing nursing home residents living where NO Covid-19 clusters have been found.
Yesterday saw the country’s highest number of deaths in a single day recorded, with a further 41 people losing their lives after being infected with the virus, bringing to 406 the number of fatalities here.
There are 11,479 confirmed Covid-19 cases nationally, 106 of those in Clare, with 8 new cases of the virus recorded in this county yesterday.
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187 of the deaths occurred in nursing homes across the country.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan says his team is trying to stop the virus getting into nursing homes in the first place:
