Date: July 15, 2022
Published: July 15, 2022 The HPSC Seroepidemiology Unit (SEU) is pleased to announce the launch of the HPSC Seroepidemiology of COVID-19 Data Hub. The hub presents a summary of COVID-19 seroprevalence due to vaccination or infection in Ireland over time, by ag...
Date: June 23, 2022
Published: June 23, 2022 Since the end of May, signals across several COVID-19 and respiratory illness surveillance systems have indicated an increase in COVID-19 circulation. Data from week 24 (between June 12 and June 18 2022) indicate an ongoing increase: I...
Date: June 12, 2022
Published: June 12, 2022 Since March, 12 probable cases of children with hepatitis of unknown cause have been identified in Ireland and a small number of children are under investigation. This is more than would usually be expected over this period of time. Ad...
Date: June 10, 2022
Published: June 10, 2022 Signals across several COVID-19 surveillance programmes indicate increased COVID-19 circulation in the community. In week 22 (May 29-June 04 2022), 4,675 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported to the Computerised Infectious Disease Rep...
Date: May 12, 2022
Published: May 12, 2022 From 16th May 2022 there will be a change to the frequency of reporting of the epidemiology of COVID-19 by HPSC. As previously communicated, HPSC has reviewed its COVID-19 epidemiological outputs in light of the current stage of the COV...
Date: May 10, 2022
Published: May 10, 2022 The National SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance Programme is holding a conference on Friday, May 13th 2022 8.30am - 4.30pm. The theme of the conference is “SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance during the COVID-19...
Date: May 6, 2022
Published: May 6, 2022 From Thursday 5 May 2022, a process to retrospectively upload cases of COVID-19 diagnosed by several private laboratories between the end of November 2021 and the end of January 2022 on the Computerised Infectious Diseases reporting syst...
Date: April 28, 2022
Published: April 28, 2022 Over the past eight weeks, a small number (less than five) of children with hepatitis of unknown cause have been identified in Ireland and a small number of possible cases are being investigated. This is more than would usually be exp...
Date: April 27, 2022
Published: April 27, 2022 The HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre is currently recruiting IT Officers GIV There is a new opportunity in the IT Department, we are recruiting two IT Officers GIV. Come and join our growing team. For more info go to HSE JOBS...
Date: April 21, 2022
Published: April 21, 2022 The HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre is currently recruiting an Assistant IT Manager GVII. There is a new opportunity in the IT Department, we are recruiting an Assistant IT Manager GVII. Come and join our growing team. For m...
Date: April 21, 2022
Published: April 21, 2022 The latest weekly report on COVID-19 cases in Ireland is now available here. Although PCR positive confirmed cases notified on the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR), and antigen positive cases have decreased comp...
Date: April 21, 2022
Published: April 21, 2022 Influenza activity in Ireland continues to decrease. The number of notified cases reported decreased further during week 15 2022 but influenza viruses are still circulating in Ireland. People in at-risk groups are urged to get vaccina...