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Critically-ill Covid-19 patients are less likely to die or to require invasive ventilation if lying prone on their stomachs while receiving oxygen, a global research project sponsored by NUI Galway has found.

Patient numbers in the intensive care units (ICUs) of the west's public hospitals are being monitored 24 hours a day to ensure these critical care facilities will be able to cope with increasing admissions during the fourth wave of Covid-19.

Patient numbers in the intensive care units of the west's public hospitals are being monitored 24 hours a day to ensure these critical care facilities will be able to cope with increasing admissions during the fourth wave of Covid-19.

A team of vaccinators will begin innoculating healthcare workers at the Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Galway Racecourse this morning (Thursday).

The head of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs Mayo University Hospital and a number of public hospitals in the west/northwest, has appealed to the public to continue to limit social contacts and abide by the Level 5 restrictions in order to protect people at greatest risk of contracting Covid-19.

The head of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the local public hospitals, has appealed to the public to continue to limit their social contact and abide by the Level 5 restrictions to protect people at greatest risk of contracting Covid-19.

The level of Covid-19 infection in the community needs to be driven down much further than it is at currently and it is important people continue to abide by all the public health restrictions to achieve this, the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the local public hospitals in the west and north-west, stressed this week.

The number of new cases of Covid-19 has started to fall in Mayo in the past week.

The escalating number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units (ICUs), combined with high levels of staff absenteeism due to the virus, is putting severe pressure on local hospitals.

With the present Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions confirmed for extension until Friday, March 5, most recently updated figures published by the Health Surveillance Protection Centre (HSPC) and HSE (from 05/01-18/01) reveal that three local electoral areas within the region boast the lowest Covid-19 rates per population in the country.