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Critically ill patients with Covid-19 requiring intensive care in Northern Ireland's Nightingale facility in Belfast City Hospital have been infected with a superbug known as Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococci (GRE), the Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed.

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