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More than 9,000 additional cases of COVID-19 will be announced in the coming days, health chiefs warned.
A delay in the processing of positive tests in the laboratories has caused the delay in the notification of cases.
There has been a lot of positive tests in the last few days: 5,573 positive tests out of 26,866 were recorded yesterday, a positivity rate of 20.7%.
1,754 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were announced today, with 11 more deaths from the disease.
Of the confirmed cases, 523 of them were in Dublin, and 64% of all cases were in people under 45.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chairman of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, said: “Tests processed and reported on a given day will normally be validated and confirmed by HPSC the next day. Positive tests detected in laboratories require validation (to remove duplicates and other tests that do not create new cases) and transferred to the HPSC database prior to confirmation and reporting.
“A large volume of positive tests in recent days means there is a delay in formal notification. Over 9,000 additional new cases will be reported in the next few days. The delay in notification does not affect case management or contact tracing. nor our general monitoring and modeling of the pandemic. “
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