10 things we learned today about the spread of Covid-19

At a briefing of the National Public Health Emergency Team tonight, Acting Medical Director Dr. Ronan Glynn said Ireland was moving into the second chapter of the coronavirus emergency.

He added that the most important thing everyone had to do now was reduce their social contacts.

Meanwhile, Professor Philip Nolan, chair of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, said that while there are restrictions to control spread in Dublin, “what we have here is a national problem.”

Here are 10 things we learned today about the spread of Covid-19 in Ireland.

one) The incidence rate in Dublin is still 3-4 times higher than in the rest of the country, but it is growing at about the same rate across the country.

two) The 7-day average over the past week is 276 cases per day, while the 14-day cumulative incidence is closer to 74 today, down from 71 yesterday.

3) About 15% of cases are in the under-19 age group, which has been consistent for over a month, despite school vacancies, but there has been a disproportionate increase in the over-age group. 65 years.

4) There is a pattern of transmission of the disease in the community in 1 out of 4 cases and that is amplified in particular settings such as homes.

5) Almost 13,000 tests were completed last week; the positivity rate is higher, so there are more viruses and it is detected more frequently, but Professor Nolan said the positivity rate was lower by international standards.

6) The average during the last week was 80 people in the hospital diagnosed with Covid-19 at any time of the day. Today it was 95 at the last count.

7) Typically, there were 7 admissions per day last week; there were 9 in the last 24 hours.

8) During the past week, there were 15 people in the ICU on any given day; today there are 16, with 1-2 admissions per day to the ICU.

9) Dr. Ronan Glynn said that allowing a controlled spread of the coronavirus among people under the age of 60 “is certainly not a strategy that we adopt in this country.”

10) Passengers arriving from Dublin to Germany will be subject to mandatory Covid-19 testing and quarantine. Dublin was listed as a “risk zone” for Covid-19 by the German government’s biomedical institute.

The appointment came after “a joint analysis and decision by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Construction and Home Affairs,” according to a statement on the website of the Robert Koch Institute.

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