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Three other people diagnosed with Covid-19 have died, the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) said on Saturday and another 1,012 new cases of the disease were reported.
It is the highest number of cases in a single day since the height of the pandemic on April 15, when 1,068 were recorded.
Today’s figures bring to 1,824 the number of people who have died from the disease in the Republic of Ireland with a total of 41,714 confirmed cases in the State since the start of the pandemic.
Of the current cases, 511 are men and 496 are women, 71% are under 45 years of age, while the average age of those diagnosed is 30 years. A total of 241 of the cases are in Dublin, 112 in Cork, 80 in Cavan, 72 in Meath, 66 in Galway, and the remaining 441 cases are spread over 21 other counties.
Nphet said that as of 2 p.m. Saturday there were 199 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, of whom 31 are in the ICU.
Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan said: “I am very concerned about the numbers we are seeing and how quickly they are deteriorating.
“Today’s 1,012 cases were reported to HPSC over a 24-hour period until midnight.
“The 14-day incidence rate has increased from 108 per 100,000 last Sunday to 150 per 100,000 today, which is a 39 percent increase.
“All the important indicators of the disease are deteriorating. For example, there has been a steady increase in test positivity over the past week. The positivity rate of the test as of midnight on Friday, October 9, was 6.2 percent, which has more than doubled in less than fifteen days.
I am very concerned about the numbers we are seeing and how quickly they are deteriorating.
Today’s 1,012 cases were notified to @hpscireland for a 24 hour period until midnight.
All the important indicators of the disease are deteriorating …
(1/3) https://t.co/b9bij8DRE4– Dr. Tony Holohan (@CMOIreland)
October 10, 2020
“The number of cases is increasing in all age groups and across the country.”
Deputy Medical Director Dr. Ronan Glynn said; “In the last 24 hours, there have been 35 new admissions of laboratory-confirmed cases to the hospital and 4 new admissions to the ICU. Now there are 199 people in the hospital and 31 in the ICU. Every age group, location and household must act now, limit their contacts, and stop the disease in its tracks. “
Confirmed Covid-19 cases have nearly quadrupled in Irish hospitals over the past month, previously released figures show.
A Covid patient is moved along a corridor at St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin in April. Photography: Alan Betson
During the same period, there has been an even greater increase in the number of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) with coronavirus.
Official figures from the Center for Health Protection Surveillance released Saturday showed 194 confirmed cases in hospitals, up from 51 at the same time in September. Some 31 of the hospitalized cases were being treated in the ICU, up from seven at the same time last month.
North Ireland
In the north, another 902 people tested positive for Covid-19, but no new deaths were reported on Saturday.
The figures come as a GP in Cork warned that infection rates are rising “very, very fast” and will get worse in the coming weeks.
General practitioner Dr. Ronan Boland said “the picture has changed dramatically in the space of three to four weeks.”
“We have gone from a situation where schools reopened in early September, when there was a high demand for exams and the vast majority of those exams were negative … (to) now, what we are actually seeing, a positivity much higher rate, “he said.
Dr Boland said that the Covid centers established by the Health Services Executive (HSE) towards the end of the first wave of the pandemic, which were “almost not needed” at that stage, are now operating at full capacity.
Most of the patients who present at the centers test positive for the disease and “most of them (are) quite ill,” while some are admitted by ambulance directly from the center to the hospital, he told RTÉ Radio One.
Dr. Boland said GPs looking to refer patients to centers cannot get an appointment “because it was over their capacity on the day.”
“It happened very, very fast,” he said.
Most of the GPs in Cork City have had multiple patients with positive results, he said, adding that the city’s hospitals “are practically at full capacity.”
Some 50 people were waiting for hospital beds in the city yesterday and there are only two empty ICU beds, he said.
“What we are seeing in terms of actual cases reflects infections that occurred seven to 14 days ago, so even if level three (of government restrictions to stop the spread of the virus) worked today, which can be said with certainty. it’s that things are going to get worse in the next two to three weeks before they get better, ”added Dr. Boland.
The “fervent hope” is that the level three restrictions will work to reduce the rate of increase in infections and diseases, as “it has grown very, very rapidly and the capacity simply does not exist to cope with a large increase in very sick patients. “. for the next few weeks. “
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