Galway Bay fm newsroom - The HSE is to start testing nursing home residents living where no Covid-19 clusters have been found.
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Yesterday saw the country's highest number of deaths in a single day recorded, with a further 41 people losing their lives after being infected with the virus.
Galway has recorded 23 new cases of COVID 19 bringing the county's total to 220.
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406 people have now died nationwide, while there are 11,479 confirmed Covid-19 cases.
187 of the deaths occurred in nursing homes.
Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan says his team is trying to stop the virus getting into nursing homes in the first place....
