Date: June 22, 2021
Published: June 22, 2021 As a result of the cyber attack on the HSE IT systems, production of HPSC's daily and weekly reports has been disrupted due to limited user access to CIDR across the HSE. HPSC has continued to produce the weekly summary of COVID-19 vir...
Date: May 13, 2021
Published: May 13, 2021 A new epidemiological report on COVID-19 in cases aged 0-18 has been published this week. Between March 1st 2020 and May 8th 2021, a total of 38,948 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the 0-18 year old population were notified on CIDR: 8,24...
Date: April 27, 2021
Published: April 27, 2021 The new summary report on COVID-19 virus variants in Ireland includes whole genome sequencing (WGS) carried out by the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) and partners. Current whole genome sequencing capacity is approximately...
Date: April 23, 2021
Published: April 23, 2021 A revised version of the COVID-19 Guidance on visits to Long Term Residential Care Facilities has been published. This guidance will be implemented as of 4th May 2021. The guidance is available on the HPSC website. Important Note on t...
Date: April 21, 2021
Published: April 21, 2021 The HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is providing advice to parents about preventing cryptosporidiosis following a large increase in a potentially serious tummy bug in children over the last few weeks. Since the beginn...
Date: April 2, 2021
Published: April 30, 2021 The COVID-19 14-day epidemiology report published daily is available at HPSC.ie/COVID-19epidemiology An infographic on COVID-19 cases in Ireland is also available on the HPSC website and is published Tuesday to Saturday. Available to...
Date: April 2, 2021
Published: April 30, 2021 A National SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance Programme, which has been developed by a specialist team, with input from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), the HSE, HIU, the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL), UC...
Date: March 16, 2021
Published: March 16, 2021 A new infection prevention and control (IPC) and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) eLearning foundation programme is now available on the HSE elearning platform at https://www.hseland.ie. The IPC and AMR eLearning foundation programme h...
Date: March 5, 2021
Published: March 5, 2021 HPSC successfully retained its ISO27001 Information Security certification following a two-day audit in December. Steve Shawyer, HPSC’s Information Security and IT manager commented “Since the onset of the COVID-19 emergency, HPSC’s op...
Date: February 12, 2021
Published: February 12, 2021 The guidance New SARS-CoV-2 variants with multiple spike protein mutations: Interim guidance on required actions for all Clinicians, Hospitals and Public Health Staff has been updated today. The Minister for Health has added an add...
Date: January 27, 2021
Published: January 27, 2021 Background More commonly known as ‘bird’ flu, avian influenza refers to a type of infection that occurs in aquatic birds and fowl and poultry. It is caused by Avian Influenza Type A viruses. There are two types of this virus: Low Pa...
Date: January 26, 2021
Published: January 26, 2021 Anyone who has travelled from South Africa or Brazil to Ireland in the past 14 days is now advised to immediately: A. Self-isolate for a period of 14 days from the date of arrival into Ireland. This advice to self-isolate is stri...