Ballyjamesduff in Cavan has the highest Covid-19 incidence rate, Ballyfermot-Drimnagh has the highest in Dublin

BALLYJAMESDUFF, CO CAVAN now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Ireland, according to new data from the Department of Health.

The national breakdown of Covid-19 incidence by local area shows that parts of Cavan and Donegal, which are now under Level 4 restrictions along with Monaghan, have the highest 14-day incidence rate per 100,000.

The 14-day incidence rate for Ballyjamesduff is 651.1 cases per 100,000. Lifford-Stranorlar, Donegal is the second highest with 610.3 cases per 100,000, followed by Cork City South-Central, which has 566.4 cases per 100,000.

Data on the real-time incidence of Covid-19 by local electoral area was published on the Government’s online Covid-19 data center and collected through October 12.

Ireland’s 14-day incidence rate overall is now 206.7 cases per 100,000.

Dublin remains the county with the highest number of reported cases over the past fortnight with 2,615 reported cases, followed by Cork, which had 1,261 reported cases.

In Dublin, Ballyfermot-Drimnagh has the highest incidence rate in 14 days with 310.4 cases per 100,000.

Elsewhere, Galway City Central and Gorey, Co Wexford are among the highest incidence rates with 550.5 cases and 533.8 cases per 100,000 respectively.

Other critical points include Granard, Longford (449.7), as well as Ennis (423.8) and Kilrush (409.6) in Clare.

Health officials last night reported a record 1,205 new Covid-19 cases in Ireland and three more deaths.

Since then, NPHET has recommended to the government that the country move to Level 5 for a period of six weeks.

At 8 a.m. today, 244 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, of which 29 are in the ICU. There have been 25 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.

If the additional Level 3 restrictions nationwide have no effect on the spread of the coronavirus, it is anticipated that there will be between 1,800 and 2,200 cases of Covid-19 per day and more than 400 people with Covid-19 in the hospital before Halloween. said Professor Philip Nolan. , Chairman of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group last night.

He said hospitalizations are “increasing exponentially, in fact increasing exponentially faster than we projected 14 days ago.”

Speaking last night, Nolan said that the R number this week is estimated to be around 1.4 nationally down from 1.2 last week, but in Dublin it is closer to 1, while in the rest of the country it is around 1.6 and possibly as high as 1.8. .

“What happens over the next two weeks depends a lot on the breeding number,” Nolan said.