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There have been 326 new coronavirus cases reported to the Department of Health in the last 24 hours. This includes 152 new cases in Dublin and 22 in Donegal.
No more deaths were reported and the death toll here from Covid-19 stands at 1,797 with 34,315 confirmed cases. This includes the denotation of six previously confirmed cases.
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Medical Director, said: “Today I ask people everywhere, but particularly in Donegal and Dublin, to pay particular attention to public health councils.
“I ask each individual to take personal responsibility for prioritizing who they need to see, limiting the size of their social network, and reducing their social contacts in the days and weeks ahead.
“Because while there is the possibility that other areas will have to move to Level 3, there is nothing inevitable about it. We have seen before how people working together can turn the tide of this virus and get back in control of the growing trajectories.”
Dr. Glynn added: “Know how valuable your individual actions are. Your choices and your actions are part of how we will achieve this.”
The latest Covid-19 cases include 162 men and 152 women. More than two-thirds (69%) are under 45 years of age.
One third (33%) are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case, while 49 cases have been identified as community transmission.
In addition to 152 cases in Dublin and 22 in Donegal, 32 new cases were reported in Cork, 21 in Galway, 15 in Meath and 11 in Kildare.
Nine cases came from Kerry, eight from Louth, eight more from Westmeath, six from Limerick, six from May, six from Tipperary and five from Wexford, with the remaining 25 cases spread across eight counties.
Earlier today, President Michael D Higgins addressed a virtual UN meeting on universal access to Covid-19 health care from Áras An Uacharáin.
“This pandemic has shown, with often tragic consequences, that new ideas are now required. Ideas based on equity of access, sufficiency, sustainability,” he said.
“It has demonstrated an unequivocal need for a new eco-social-political economy, to have universal basic services that protect us in the future, to allow people to achieve sufficiency in what they need.
“As President of Ireland, I am pleased that Ireland is among 156 countries that have joined a World Health Organization-backed program that aims to ensure the equitable distribution of any future Covid-19 vaccines.”
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Speeches by President Higgins @A meeting on universal access to health technologies COVID-19: https://t.co/WiJzDISS3U # COVID-19 @WHO
– President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) September 25, 2020
Also today, the Northern Ireland Department of Health announced a record number of confirmed Covid-19 cases.
An additional 273 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 10,223.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that more young people are being hospitalized due to Covid-19.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne, Health Service Executive Director Paul Reid said they are seeing an increase in new virus cases among people 65 and older along with an increase in youth hospitalizations.
He said the contact tracing and testing system in Donegal has been overwhelmed by the volume of cases, which must be controlled now.
Reid said the amount of work done in the past six months in response to the coronavirus in conjunction with the Winter Plan will see a shift in care and pressure from hospital services to treat the elderly at home and provide diagnoses to physicians. family in the community.
It also revealed that four million flu vaccines for adults and 600,000 flu vaccines for children will be available for administration this winter.
Also today, college students learned that all institutions of higher education and higher education will provide the vast majority of learning online for the next two weeks.
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