At least 8,500 healthcare staff absent due to Covid, says HSE chief
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An estimated 8,500 healthcare staff are absent because they are sick with Covid-19 or self-isolating, HSE chief executive Paul Reid has said. But he warned the figure could be double, as it was based on a manual count that was now a week old. Mr Reid said the “pace and force” of the Omicron variant