Galway Bay fm newsroom - The HSE is examining a plan to roll-out self isolation centres in Galway, Limerick and Cork.
It comes as the HSE has turned the Citywest hotel and conference centre in Dublin into a self-isolation facility that will start taking affected people from all around Dublin later this week.
The hotel has 750 bedrooms to accommodate three categories of people who cannot self-isolate at home.
These are individuals showing no symptoms, individuals with mild symptoms awaiting a test result, and individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19 but who have mild symptoms.
According to the Irish Times, HSE officials are looking at a number of these facilities in urban areas such as Galway, Limerick and Cork.