Staff continue to live on site in an effort to combat the outbreak.
A quarter of residents at a Laois nursing home have died as a result of Covid-19.
16 out of 65 people in Droimnín Nursing Home Stradbally have now lost their lives.
Staff continue to live on site in an effort to combat the outbreak.
Chief Executive of Brookhaven Healthcare Group, who runs the facility Gearoid Brennan says the remaining residents that contracted the virus are almost all "out of the covid zone".
He also confirmed some of the 36 staff who were ill are beginning to return to work but at least two remain seriously unwell.
COVID: The outbreak first began on New Year's Eve.
Posted by Midlands 103 on Monday, 11 January 2021