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There have been 270 new cases of Covid-19 with one more death.
Although the national incidence rate in 14 days is now 161 cases per 100,000.
The five-day average is 444 cases per day.
Among the cases reported in the last 14 days, the average age is 35 and the average age is 37.
64% of cases occur in people under 45 years of age, 11% of cases in people 65 years or older.
291 Covid-19 patients are in the hospital, while 39 Covid-19 patients are in the ICU.
Statistics show so far in November, there have been 18 deaths from confirmed and probable Covid-19 cases.
This compares with a total of 117 Covid deaths in the month of October and 36 Covid deaths in September.
Medical Director Tony Holohan said that now is “not the time to celebrate” the Covid-19 vaccine, as it is “the early days.”
The announcement of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, which was reported to be 90% effective, was by Dr. Cillian De Gascun, “positive news”, but the question for NPHET was “what does the underlying data look like.”
Dr. Holohan said it was not a time to “celebrate or we can relax.”
The nation had yet to continue “reducing” the virus under lockdown measures.
Dr. Holohan said he would “not speculate” on Christmas socializing, but would advise on “safe and effective measures.”
“The government will decide what measures will be implemented in December,” he added, with the advice of NPHET.
“Everything will depend on the progress we make with the virus,” he added.
Measurements after Dec. 1 would still have to be strict, he explained.
Dr. Holohan said: “As we have done in the past, when social events occurred, we have given advice.
“We gave advice on St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween. I imagine we will give advice at Christmas, ”he added, but the time for that had not yet come.
Dr Holohan added: “There is nothing inevitable in a third wave”, and the Irish public had the power to “influence when and how significantly”.
While Dr. De Gascun added that Denmark had acted promptly regarding the “mutant” coronavirus in mink.
NPHET reported that Ireland is doing better than much of Europe against the virus.
However, Dr Holohan said that Dublin was still not reducing the numbers to the extent that the rest of Ireland does.
Today there were 103 out of 270 cases in Dublin. The higher case numbers highlighted that level 3 had not been sufficient to counter the virus, Dr. Holohan said.
“There is no doubt that the infection in Dublin took longer to show a reduction,” he said.
“We are seeing a reduction now. We are looking at data from a seven-day period, but we can see a reduction over a five-day period.”
“But it has not been at the same speed as in other parts of the country, considering that Level 3” was in place “longer.”
This had highlighted that these measures were not “capable of rounding the curve”.
Dr Gascun said that the mink issue had been discussed here and there was no evidence for this “new genetic mutation.”
Deputy Medical Director Dr Desmond Hickey stated that, according to ECDC data, Ireland is ranked 28th out of 31 EU countries in terms of the 14-day incidence rate.
He added that 25 out of 31 countries now have a 14-day incidence rate greater than 200.
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