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Another 335 cases were announced today, and another five people sadly died of coronavirus.
The latest statistics show that Covid-19 cases are spreading across the country, although fortunately the numbers are dropping week by week.
Of the cases reported today, 72 are in Dublin, 41 in Donegal, 26 in May, 25 in Cork, 23 in Kerry and the remaining 148 cases are distributed in another 19 counties.
The most recent incidence rate table is below, with case numbers for each county.
It is noteworthy that the total number of cases is lower than that of several previous Saturdays.
Last week, on Halloween night, we saw 416 confirmed cases. Before that, on October 24 it saw 859 cases and on October 17 it saw 1,276 cases.
Ireland’s overall incidence rate has plummeted to 185.6 from 268.7 last Saturday.
Other stats for today:
- 155 are men / 177 are women
- 64% are under 45
- The average age is 37 years.
As of 2:00 p.m. today, 284 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, of which 40 are in the ICU.
There have been 23 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.
Despite the positive signs emerging, former NPHET member Cillian De Gascun said it is too early to tell if Ireland will be at Level Two by Christmas.
The chairman of the Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group said that while the first signs are good, they hope to reduce the virus to double digits in terms of cases per day.
Speaking on RTE Radio One, Dr. De Gascun said: “Right now we don’t know what level we’re going to be at for Christmas, we still have six / seven weeks left, so we’re trying to predict where we’ll be (it’s difficult).
“The key message that people need to keep in mind is that people have done very well over the last two weeks, the number of cases is down, the incidence is dropping, the R rate is below 1, that is a very good sign.
“The problem is that we still have hundreds of cases a day, we still have more than 300 people in the hospital, we still have about 40 people in intensive care.
“To really suppress the virus, we need to get numbers below 100 and preferably double digits.”
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