Health officials have revealed 217 confirmed cases of COVID-19 this night– the highest daily figure since May.
It takes the nationwide total to 29,025
No new deaths have actually been reported, and the death toll remains at 1,777
Some 103 of the brand-new cases remain in Dublin, with 25 in Kildare, 17 in Limerick, seven in Waterford, seven in Wicklow, six in Clare, 5 in Louth and the rest spread out around Carlow, Cavan, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kilkenny, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Westmeath and Wexford.
The acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn stated 19 of the cases have been determined as community transmission while over half are connected with outbreaks or are close contacts of a previously verified case.
” While the number of cases today is the highest daily reported figure since May, the five-day moving average remains fairly steady at 115 cases daily,” stated Dr Glynn.
” Nevertheless, this is still a substantial variety of cases and I urge everybody to double down on their efforts now– clean hands routinely, physically range from others, wear face coverings where appropriate, prevent crowded areas, know the symptoms, isolate and call your GP if you have any issues.
” Please continue to reduce your social contacts so that the virus does not get the opportunity to spread further.”
Issue
On The Other Hand, Anthony Staines, Teacher of Health Systems at DCU, told Newstalk that decreasing the numbers ought to not be a difficult task.
” It is definitely trigger for issue however not cause for prevalent alarm and upset,” he stated.
” We have had higher varieties of cases than this before and we have handled to bring it down. We managed to bring the variety of cases down in Kildare, we managed to bring the variety of cases down in Laois and Offaly and I believe we can manage to bring the cases down nationally.”
Optimism
He stated people all over Ireland have actually made significant modifications in action to the virus and there is still trigger for optimism.
” Many people are social distancing so that keeps down the spread,” he said.
” Individuals are washing their hands; individuals are wearing masks– all of this keeps down the spread.
” Tracking and tracing is better than it was. You have a variety of cases and perhaps in March they would have caused 50 more cases– now they might cause 10 more cases and that all builds up.”
As of 8am today, there were 36 verified cases of the infection in Irish hospitals and six patients in intensive care.
Of the 62,056 tests performed in the previous 7 days, 1.2?me back favorable.
Some 70%of the new cases remained in patients under the age of 45
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