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The number of people with Covid-19 in Irish hospitals has risen to 581, with 73 admissions in the last 24 hours.
It compares with 504 patients at the same time yesterday and 530 at 8pm last night.
It also represents the largest number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus since May 8.
The Executive Director of the Health Service, Paul Reid, said on Twitter that 50 patients with the virus are in intensive care units and warned that “we probably have not seen the worst impacts yet.”
Now we have 581 # COVID-19 patients in the hospital. There are 50 people in ICU. We probably haven’t seen the worst impacts yet. But everything we do today to stop the spread of this virus makes a big difference. Please, let’s do our part to protect our health service.@HSELive
– Paul Reid (@paulreiddublin) January 2, 2021
The chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team of Ireland’s Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, Professor Philip Nolan, said that positive tests, cases and hospitalizations double every seven to ten days.
Stay at home. 581 people in the hospital with COVID-19 this morning, up from 255 on December 24. Positive tests, cases, and hospitalizations double every 7-10 days. We can stop this, but it is essential that each and every one of us do our part to turn the tide. Stay at home. pic.twitter.com/vGHYu5ehKF
– Professor Philip Nolan (@President_MU) January 2, 2021
Meanwhile, nine more cases of the variant form of Covid-19 have been detected in Ireland, which was first identified in south-east England.
The Director of the UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory said on Twitter that additional testing this week of SARSCoV2 samples from December 23-29 detected the additional cases, bringing the total number of identified cases to 16.
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Dr Cillian de Gascun said that while the sample set is small, it appears that the variant form of the virus is not responsible for the “recent significant and worrying increase” in the number of cases.
More tests this week of # SARS-CoV-2 samples dating from #December 23 to 29 has detected 9 additional #UKvariant cases in #Ireland. This brings up the total number of cases identified @nvrlucdireland to 16 (out of 169 tested to date) 1/2 https://t.co/gBEy0VjXO7
– Cillian De Gascun (@CillianDeGascun) January 1, 2021
As a random, albeit small, selection of cases primarily from the community, these data would suggest that the # SARS-CoV-2 #UKvariant – in a proportion of <10% - is not responsible for the recent significant and worrying increase in # SARS-CoV-2 case numbers #Surveillance #Stay at home
– Cillian De Gascun (@CillianDeGascun) January 1, 2021
Yesterday, the medical director, Dr. Tony Holohan, warned that the health system will not cope with the impact of the increase in cases, with at least 9,000 new cases to be reported in the coming days.
The 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population in Ireland has risen from 87 at the beginning of December to 321.3 at the end of the month.
Dr Holohan said: “The most worrying trend today is the rapid increase in the number of people admitted to hospital … unfortunately, we expect this to get worse before it improves. Our healthcare system will not continue to cope at this level. of impact. “
Professor Nolan said that a large volume of positive tests in recent days means there is a delay in the formal report and more than 9,000 new cases will be reported in the coming days.
Yesterday, the Health Department was notified of another 11 deaths related to the coronavirus and 1,754 new cases.
The death toll now stands at 2,248 with a total of 93,532 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
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