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PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has tested positive for Covid-19.
A spokesperson for Áras an Uachtaráin said 80-year-old President Higgins and his wife Sabina displayed mild Covid-19 symptoms this morning and have tested positive on antigen tests.
They will be isolating for the next seven days. While isolating President Higgins will continue to work from home.
Current guidelines state that healthy people over the age of 55 only need to get a PCR test if they have not had a Covid-19 vaccine booster.
The most recent statistics show that there were 661 patients in hospital with the coronavirus disease in Ireland yesterday, including 46 people in intensive care units.
The Department of Health reported 4,042 PCR-confirmed cases yesterday. An additional 4,746 positive antigen tests were registered through the HSE portal.
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Wishing them all the best..
OMG hope they make a quick and successful recovery
Wishing them both a full recovery
Hope they recover soon
I hope they both recover quickly.
Work from home… doesn’t he actually live in his workplace anyway??
@Nelse: no, he does travel as well as part of his duties.
@Jason Ebbs: obviously, its a rhetorical statement meant for levity
@Nelse: ?? at the end make it a question not a statement.
Bad doses going around out there havent had a chesty cough all pandemic until this week, guess the immune system needs to get busier again
Hope they both fully recover soon. A decent skin.
jesus Christ me heart ❤️
Hoping they both recover soon
Lockdown
Big loss to country him working from home
@Jonathan: A hole
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