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# Flu and Viruses

Last year

2022

CMO urges people with new Covid-like symptoms to stay at home over Christmas

Prof Breda Smyth is advising people with flu-like symptoms to avoid Christmas parties and meeting family

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Dec 20th 2022, 3:44 PM

Dublin children's hospitals operator warns facilities in the capital are 'under extreme pressure'

The CHI operator said that staff at children’s hospitals are going ‘above the call of duty’ to care for sick children

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Dec 7th 2022, 2:08 PM