{"id":212762,"date":"2025-12-27T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:18:11","slug":"flu-peak-showing-signs-of-abating-hse-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212762\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu peak showing signs of \u2018abating\u2019, HSE chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"While the number of flu cases rose last week, the number of people presenting to emergency departments fell. Photo: Jeff Moore\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40d40e02-8552-41f1-9c29-b912eb17c1a8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">While the number of flu cases rose last week, the number of people presenting to emergency departments fell. Photo: Jeff Moore\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Flu cases are showing signs of \u201cabating\u201d, HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster said in an update, but warned that while the peak may have been reached, there is still \u201cplenty around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cSt Stephen\u2019s Day is a day of travel, celebrating, visiting, sport and festivities. Enjoy it all. We [the HSE] are here if you need us but we\u2019d prefer not to have to see you. Enjoy and be safe and healthy,\u201d Mr Gloster said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the number of flu cases rose last week, the number of people presenting to emergency departments fell.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15763,103,2120,61,60],"class_list":["post-212762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-darragh-nolan","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}