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The national public health emergency team reported Thursday the deaths of 43 other patients, 22 men and 21 women, diagnosed with Covid-19.
About 34 of the deaths were in the east, four in the west and five in the south.
A total of 27 patients were reported to have underlying health conditions.
There have now been 486 Covid-19 related deaths in the Republic. The average age of today’s deaths is 84.
On Thursday, NPHET also reported 629 new confirmed cases processed by Irish laboratories, and 95 processed at a German laboratory. The total number of confirmed cases now is 13,271.
Professor Philip Nolan, chair of the NPHET Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, said the data showing the different stages of the disease in Ireland over the past six weeks are positive.
“We now estimate that our R0 is between 0.7 and 1.0, which means that the current restrictions are successfully suppressing the disease.”
An RO of less than 1.0 means that each infected person transmits the virus to less than one person.
Dr. Tony Holohan said the data clearly shows that in the general population, the virus is contained and effectively suppressed.
“However, the experience of the disease in long-term residential care settings remains a concern.
“To protect the vulnerable, the first task was to suppress the virus in the general population. We are increasingly confident that we are succeeding.
“All of our efforts should now focus on extinguishing Covid-19 in our community residential settings, including nursing homes.”
Of the cases that occurred until Tuesday, 55 percent are women and 45 percent men. The median age of confirmed cases is 48 years, and 2,026 of the 12,425 cases were hospitalized.
Of the hospitalized, 284 were admitted to the ICU.
The number of cases associated with healthcare workers is now 3,090.
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