There will be a per head payment of up to €800 a patient a month for each person in a nursing home.
In addition any nursing home that has an outbreak of coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, will be able to apply for financial assistance of up to €75,000 a month for the months of April, May and June.A designated member of the full-time staff in each nursing home will work full-time on Covid-19 management.Staff movement, especially movement of agency staff, will be curtailed. Mr Harris promised to “clamp down” on it.
The maximum cost of the package will be €72 million but only if every nursing home avails of the full amount.Mr Harris denied that they had been too slow in dealing with clusters in nursing home saying that the Government had been operating on expert advice. Mr Harris said the number of people infected by the average Covid-19 patient has dropped from 4.3 at the start of the epidemic to 2.5 now, but it needs to get to one for the virus to die out.
The announcement followed a teleconference call between Mr Harris and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Friday.
He has to try and keep the FFG voters alive as long as possible or they are fu*ked 😄😄😄
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