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The public will be informed if Ireland can move to phase one of the reopening plan at the end of the week.
Phase one of the plan is scheduled to begin on Monday, May 18 with a formal decision to be made and announced on Thursday or Friday.
Another 107 cases were detected in the country in the last day with 24 people dying of coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland.
Speaking at today’s briefing, Dr. Tony Holohan said: “We still have 70 people in the ICU and more than 500 people in hospitals with this disease.
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“We will continue to monitor those figures throughout the week and make our assessment of where we think we are.
(Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin)
“We continue to make good progress, our breeding number is where we want it to be and the level of infection we are now detecting with positivity rates at and around 3% gives us a sense of stimulation of where we are.”
“If we are going to ease the restrictions, it will be with respect to an evaluation that we will formally do towards the end of this week.”
There have now been a total of 1,488 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland and 23,242 confirmed cases of the disease.
Today’s HPSC data, as of midnight on Sunday, May 10 (23,089 cases), reveals:
· 57% are women and 42% are men
· The median age of confirmed cases is 49 years
· 3,031 cases (13%) have been hospitalized
· Of the hospitalized, 386 cases have been admitted to the ICU
· 6,906 cases are associated with health workers
· Dublin has the highest number of cases with 11,235 (49% of all cases) followed by Kildare with 1,337 cases (6%) and then Cork with 1,234 cases (5%)
· Of those for whom the transmission status is known: community transmission represents 61%, close contact accounts 36%, travel abroad represents 3%
As of midnight on Monday, May 11, 258,808 tests have been conducted.
During the past week, 44,047 tests were carried out and of these 1,466 were positive, giving a positivity rate of 3.3%.
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