The Department of Health has actually been informed of 254 additional verified Covid-19 cases in Ireland, and 3 more deaths.
here are now 31,799 verified cases of Covid-19, and 1,788 deaths linked to the infection.
Of the cases alerted today, 136 remain in Dublin, 20 in Donegal, 13 in Louth, 12 in Wicklow, 9 in Waterford, seven in Carlow, 7 in Cork, six in Galway, five in Kerry, 5 in Wexford and the remaining 28 cases lie in Clare, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath.
Overall, 61 pc are validated to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case and 24 cases have been recognized as community transmission.
9 individuals have been admitted to health center over the past 24 hours. There are presently 73 confirmed cases in hospital, and there are 14 cases in ICU.
Performing Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ronan Glynn, said there are issues for a number of counties beyond Dublin.
” The present situation has actually deteriorated both in Dublin and nationally over the past week,” he said.
” Together With Dublin we have actually seen especially concerning patterns in Louth, Waterford and Donegal. It is now absolutely necessary that people action public health advice and act as if they or those near to them are possibly infectious.”
The recreation number is now in between 1.3– 1.7 for the country as an entire, Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said.
He said the recreation rate in Dublin alone resembles the nationwide rate.
Dr Nolan said he is “more concerned” than he has been considering that late April, including: “Case numbers seem growing greatly and are likely to double every 10 to 14 days if every one of us does not immediately act to break chains of transmission of the infection.
” If we do not interrupt transmission now, bring the r-number back to listed below 1, modelling shows that we might have 500 -1,000 cases daily by October 16, 50-60 pc of which would be in Dublin.”
Meanwhile, Financing Minister Paschal Donohoe has said there is a “strong possibility” serious restrictions could be enforced in Dublin later on today.
The capital might relocate to level 3 of the Federal government’s new structure to handle Covid-19, Mr Donohoe stated.
All counties in Ireland is currently under a status 2 danger level.
The Minister informed RTÉ’s Morning Ireland: “Our medical and public health experts will supply assistance to Federal government on this problem that would then be thought about by the Government.
” It will be consistent with the structure that we published and then we’ll make a suggestion and a decision on this to individuals of Dublin.
” I believe it is reasonable to state it is an extremely real possibility that guidance might change even more for Dublin, however the reason we have actually provided this additional assistance for Dublin, on top of the level two guidance, is to see what can be done to continue to keep those who live and those who work in Dublin as safe as possible.”
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