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Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan has said that progress is being made in terms of suppressing Covid-19 in Ireland, but while the country is “on the right track”, it is still too early for people to alleviate your efforts.
His comments came as the daily number of new cases last night fell to the lowest number on record since October 4.
An additional 416 new cases of the virus were confirmed last night, while five more deaths were also recorded.
It brings the total number of Covid-related deaths to 1,913, while there have been a total of 61,456 cases.
The latest figures show that at 8am this morning, there were 324 people with Covid-19 in Irish hospitals.
There were 16 new admissions during the previous 24 hours while eight people were discharged.
At 8pm last night, there were 43 Covid-19 patients in intensive care, with 25 on ventilators, while there were also 45 critical care beds available.
Dr. Holohan said that the incidence of the virus was decreasing in younger people, yet it was still increasing in people over 75.
“We have more to do, but we are on the right track,” he said.
Dr Holohan also pointed out that Ireland is currently one of four EU countries with a 7-day reduction in incidence, and said that our national breeding number has dropped to about 1.
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Of yesterday’s cases, 87 were in Dublin, 62 in Cork, 41 in May and 37 in Galway. The remaining 189 cases were distributed to another 20 counties.
64% of the cases involved people under 45 years of age, while the average age of the positive cases was 34 years.
The national incidence rate of 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants has been reduced to 268.7.
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