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Fifteen students in a college class tested positive for Covid-19 after mixing during their break time, according to public health officials in the west.
In another example cited by officials, a single person appears to have infected six people at an adjoining table in a gastro-pub, as well as four staff members, a report from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) heard. .
Three major outbreaks emerged after intense socialization by groups, sometimes across generations, according to officials, who asked people to drastically cut off their social contacts to limit the spread of the disease.
NPHET reported another 429 confirmed cases of Covid-19 yesterday.
This brings to 36,155 the total number of cases of the disease in the Republic.
Some 189 of the new cases are in Dublin and 60 in Cork. There were also 31 cases in Donegal, 28 in Galway, 18 in Kildare, 15 in Wicklow, 15 in Clare, 12 in Limerick, nine in Meath, nine in Louth, seven in Cavan, seven in Longford, six in Laois, five in Offaly and five in Westmeath, with the remaining 14 cases in eight counties.
One more death was reported to NPHET, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,804.
Professor Philip Nolan, chairman of NPHET’s epidemiological modeling advisory group, said that while they were “cautiously optimistic about Dublin,” there had been “relatively high case numbers in recent days. It will be several days before the pattern is clear, ”he said at the briefing.
Hospitals
There are currently 130 people with Covid-19 in the hospital, including 15 admissions in the last 24 hours, according to Acting Medical Director Dr. Ronan Glynn. He said that while school-age cases remained stable, there had been a sharp increase in cases among young people ages 19-24 and the increase in cases among those over 65 was concerning.
Public health officials gave examples of recent conglomerates that have occurred in the west.
A cluster of 30 cases emerged after a young couple went away for a weekend and attended a house party. This resulted in six to eight cases and cases in three to four households. On the second day of their trip, they went with friends to the city center, resulting in four more cases.
They attended a bar, where six people at an adjacent table and four staff members tested positive. They then went to a “drink room”, where four more cases occurred.
In another group of 24 cases related to intergenerational social mixing, the outbreak started in a small rural place where middle-aged people had gathered. There was socializing in a pub and at a workplace and there was more broadcast in the pub over the weekend. Fourteen of the cases were directly related to socialization and in 11 people between 45 and 70 years old.
In the outbreak, there were three family groups, three schools were affected, and also a workplace.
Meanwhile, more restrictions are likely to be imposed in Northern Ireland due to the sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, Northern Health Minister Robin Swann warned.
The minister said the North was now “at a crossroads” after his department reported 424 new coronavirus cases in Northern Ireland, the highest rate recorded since the pandemic outbreak. In his daily bulletin issued yesterday afternoon, he also reported one more death from Covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths in Northern Ireland to 579.
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