Date: October 18, 2021
Published: October 18, 2021 This week is International Infection Prevention Week (October 17 - 23). This event takes place around the world to show how we can protect our health by reducing infection. Everyone needs to know the best ways to prevent infections,...
Date: September 14, 2021
Published: September 14, 2021 Candidates are invited to apply for a post as a fellow in the ECDC Fellowship Programme, the Intervention Epidemiology path (EPIET) and/or Public Health Microbiology path (EUPHEM), EU-track, which is managed by the European Centre...
Date: September 2, 2021
Published: September 2, 2021 Key points Reporting on the number of notified COVID-19 cases using CIDR will recommence from 2 September 2021 onwards The number of cases reported from CIDR for the period affected by the cyber-attack will differ from the estimate...
Date: September 1, 2021
Published: September 1, 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),...
Date: August 19, 2021
Published: August 19, 2021 The CIDR surveillance system is now working again post the cyber attack and the cases notified since the 14th of May are being uploaded. Full reporting from CIDR will be restored as soon as possible. In the meantime HPSC will continu...
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...