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There have been 825 new cases of Covid-19 and one more death confirmed today by the Health Department.
Today 254 new cases have been confirmed in Dublin.
This comes amid speculation that some border counties could move to Level 4 or 5 restrictions, as parts of Northern Ireland (Derry and Strabane) continue to have the highest incidence rates of the virus in Ireland and the UK. United.
Hallowe’en
Speaking about Halloween, Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan said:
“We will be looking at Halloween very closely. It’s not going to be a normal Halloween; it can’t be. We can’t have children and families moving from house to house as they normally do,” Dr. Holohan said when asked. What can Halloween families look forward to this year?
There are currently 43,531 cases in Ireland, while the death toll from viruses is 1,827.
Of the cases reported today; 426 are men and 392 are women and 78% are under 45 years of age.
The average age is 30 years.
254 new cases have been confirmed in Dublin, 147 in Cork, 39 in Cavan, 38 in Donegal, 37 in Kildare and the remaining 310 cases are distributed in another 20 counties.
As of 2:00 p.m. today, 224 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, of which 32 are in the ICU.
There have been 20 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.
Currently, 20 counties have a 14-day incidence of more than 100 per 100,000 residents.
The national incidence rate is 168 per 100,000; last week it was just 108.
Most counties in Ireland are experiencing a growth in incidence rate. “Virtually every county is growing,” Dr. Holohan said.
Changing levels
“We recommended a move to phase five last week to protect health, to protect the work that HSE has done, and to protect education and childcare. And also, to protect the vulnerable. We want to prevent schools from shut down, “Dr. Holohan says of Nphet’s recommendation to move to level five last week.
“We will look to see if the Level Three measures improve the situation we are in now. We want at least 10 Level Three days before we see how it is working or not before we change our advice to the government.”
“Decisions to recommend the closure of large parts of the country are not things we do lightly and we do so fully aware of the implications of such a recommendation,” said Dr. Holohan.
The positivity rates are also increasing in almost all counties with one county having a positivity rate of 11.5%.
Hospitalizations have risen from 122 to 224 since October.
“The growth rate in Dublin has dropped,” says Dr. Holohan, but in each of the last three days we have seen case numbers in excess of 200. “However, I don’t think we can say that we have turned around. Dublin”.
“We have widespread community transmission in the country now.”
“We are not in a position to say that we know where all the cases are coming from. Or who all the close contacts are,” Dr. Holohan said.
Dublin Cases
We have seen an impact in Dublin with the measures introduced, but we have not seen enough to say that the situation in the capital is stable enough. We must be careful how we evaluate Dublin, “added Dr. Holohan.
“We are in a different place than Northern Ireland, and we are not seeing the same spread, but we will look at the border counties, as we know that there has been a particular challenge in relation to those counties.”
“Our first challenge has to be to focus on community transmission. We just won’t be able to protect people in nursing homes when we have the community transmission rate that we are seeing now.”
Community spread
Dr. Holohan said, “This poses an existential risk for older people in nursing homes and those living outside of nursing homes.”
“It doesn’t make sense to do all that we can within nursing homes if we have widespread community transmission. If we don’t address this, we will see an increase in the number of nursing homes affected by this virus.”
“The message is about the movement of people. One thing that worries me is the number of people who worked from home and now go back to the office. Keep separate from other people.
“Now is not the time for house parties, or game dates or birthday parties. This virus is thriving right now and we have to act,” said Dr. Holohan.
“All of Europe is experiencing a rebound in the sense that cases are growing again. The simple way to characterize it is that our first line of defense is our own actions. All of the socializing we’ve been putting her off. This is the first line of defense against this virus.
“When we see that the number of cases falls again, what we will do, the actions of the individual will be the most important thing,” he added.
Dr. Owen O’Flynn
Dr. Owen O’Flynn is a 23-year-old doctor who has joined the press conference to give his long Covid experience. Dr. O’Flynn contracted Covid and his only symptoms were a loss of taste and smell.
But 4-6 weeks later he experienced multisystem failure: respiratory failure and acute heart failure. Dr. O’Flynn was admitted to the ICU and said, “I was wondering if I was going to die.”
He says it is “disappointing” to see people breach public health guidelines.
Dr. O’Flynn says there are no real predictors of who will get seriously ill from the virus. “We don’t know who will get seriously ill from this at any age. Unfortunately, people of all ages have died,” he says.
Dr. Holohan asked each individual to once again accept their own individual responsibility.
“Unfortunately our colleagues in Northern Ireland are experiencing rates that are definitely among the highest in Europe, if not the world,” he said.
“It is time for all of us to behave that we have this virus. We have to pretend that we have this virus, which is highly communicable, and stay away from other people.
Dr. Holohan also confirmed that Nphet will not be deterred from recommending Level Five just because the government rejected that advice last time.
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