Four deaths and 859 new cases as Taoiseach warns of ‘bumpy roads’

Four more deaths and 859 new cases of Covid-19 have been registered in the Republic, and the North reported six deaths and 923 new cases.

There have now been a total of 1,882 coronavirus-related deaths in the state.

Of the new cases, 62% are in people under 45, with 192 cases located in Dublin, 148 in Cork, 58 in Donegal, 55 in Galway, 54 in Meath and the remaining 352 cases spread across all other counties in the Republic. .

The news comes as the Taoiseach warned there were “bumpy roads ahead” for Ireland in the fight against the virus.

With the state this week moving to the highest level of restrictions in an effort to contain the disease, Micheál Martin said lessons had been learned from the reopening of society and the economy after the first shutdown.

This experience would inform the decisions that will need to be made when it comes to easing restrictions at the end of the six-week period, he said.

“As a country we are getting over this and there are many bumpy roads ahead in relation to Covid-19,” he told the MacGill Summer School, which is being held online this year due to the pandemic.

Mr. Martin accepted that Level 5 restrictions are “very difficult” for people “who are now fatigued, especially after the first lockdown” but added that “that’s the cycle we are in.”