13 patients with covid are being treated in the ICU at Cork University Hospital today

The latest Daily Operations report shows it's an increase of two patients in 24 hours

The number of patients at the hospital with confirmed cases of covid has also increased from 139 on Wednesday to 145 yesterday. 

The increase comes at a time when over 180 nurses and 40 doctors are unavailable to work at the hospital due to covid. 

The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation also show there are 29 people without a bed 

HSE CEO Paul Reid says it isn't just older people who are being affected by the virus:

"The level of sickness that's associated with this time, and I know and in the numbers but you know just just what our nurses and doctors are seeing - high level of younger people really very sick"