Technical issues have complicated latest section of HSE’s vaccination programme

As many as 90 per cent of new cases in SA’s Gauteng province could be B.1.1.529

Some 1,000 procedures cancelled due to surge in cases, HSE chief says

Both inpatient and outpatient services have been severely hit, says Dr Francis Finucane

Paul Reid speculates behaviour may be due to ‘sense of security’ given people are vaccinated

Less than 100 beds free across the country as O’Connor warns of ‘very, very grim situation’

High number of children with breathing difficulties being admitted

Elective procedures to be cancelled if rise in Covid-19 numbers continues, says Reid

Health service owed €35m from cancelled ventilator order, Public Accounts Committee hears

Paul Reid says approximately 5% of overall cases in recent days involved fully vaccinated people

Surge in number of older, sicker patients attending EDs and admissions also rising

Medical card applications among areas affected in aftermath of cyberattack

Chief operations officer says just 30,000 of health service’s 80,000 IT devices cleaned so far

Appointments for about 7,000 patients a day being cancelled due to hack on IT systems

Cyberattack like ‘a missile dropped’ into health service with the impact unknown

Email access restored on 80,000 devices says official but outpatient services still impaired

No effort spared to resume medical services and restore HSE’s system, statement says

Detailed list of all changes to services and cancellations for every hospital issued

Gardaí strongly suspect the same criminal gang is involved in both ransomware attacks

Hospitals reverting to paper-based systems; ‘too early to say’ if patient data compromised