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There has been one new death and 363 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Republic, according to the Department of Health.
Of the cases reported today, almost two-thirds are under 45 years of age. Just under half are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or close contacts of a confirmed case, while 58 cases have been identified as community transmission.
154 of the current cases are in Dublin, with another 40 in Cork, 23 in Donegal, 16 in Wexford, 15 in Roscommon, 14 in Galway, 14 in Monaghan, 11 in Kildare, 11 in Meath, 11 in Wicklow, nine in Limerick, six in Clare, five in May, five in Tipperary and the remaining 29 cases spread across nine other counties.
It comes as Northern Ireland recorded a record number of Covid-19 cases, with 320 people testing positive for the disease there in the past 24 hours. There were no more deaths in the region, and the balance remained at 578.
1,702 cases were recorded in the region in the past seven days, 15 percent of all total cases in the North during the course of the pandemic.
Daily summary
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the global death toll from the virus passed the 1 million mark.
It came as images of hundreds of people gathered in Galway City went viral amid the county’s mounting Covid-19 cases, in scenes that have been labeled “simply unacceptable.”
Only six counties have seen a decline in their number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, according to the latest county-by-county data from the Center for Health Protection and Surveillance.
Meanwhile, HSE chief Paul Reid warned today that Ireland should plan for the next waves of the pandemic and said he expected the cost of the test and trace system to reach 450 million euros by the end of this year.
Ireland’s Covid tracking app will also link to the German and Italian versions of the app in a few weeks, to allow for easier travel in the EU during the pandemic.
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