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THE COVID-19 epidemic is “very stable or growing slowly” as NPHET chief Philip Nolan calls on the public to suppress the virus.
Five counties are being closely watched by public health officials after the high case numbers, but the NPHET president has said that local closures are not the first option to take.
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Dublin, Limerick, Tipperary, Carlow and Wexford are being closely monitored after registering high incidence rates of Covid-19.
The chair of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, Professor Philip Nolan, has said that local closures for these areas “are not the first option.”
Professor Nolan said the overall state of the epidemic is either very stable or growing slowly and called on the public to push to suppress the virus.
Speaking at the Newstalk breakfast, he said: “I think the deepest message to everyone in the country is that at this time this epidemic is either very stable or growing slowly.”
He said the five counties are all different in their virus status.
COUNTY OUTBREAKS
He said: “Take Tipperary as an example, the incidence is high but limited to a very small number of well-controlled and unconnected outbreaks.”
“At Kildare we faced a different challenge. The incidence was high and it was linked to a large number of related outbreaks.
“We saw what we call secondary spread and connections between the buds, so we had a problem outside of the outbreak environment.
“So what I would say is that these counties are different from each other.
“You do not see a single figure such as the incidence per 100,000 people, you see the pattern of the disease, the nature of the outbreak, how much you know about transmission and how much you do not know.
“In particular, where you don’t know, if you can’t track cases, you have a problem.”
‘A FINAL PUSH’
Professor Nolan said local closures are not the first or second step NPHET would take to address the highest incidence rates in the five boroughs.
He called on the public to collectively reject the disease and get it back under control.
He described it as “a final push” for now to keep the virus suppressed.
Yesterday the government decided to immediately lift the local blocking restrictions on Kildare.
KILDARE RELEASED
Kildare, Laois and Offaly were subject to strict restrictions from August 7, however Laois and Offaly were released from their local confinements on August 21.
Daily cases, the average of five rolling days, and the community transmission rate dropped during the Kildare lockdown period, allowing the government and public health officials to lift restrictions last night.
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Acting Medical Director Dr. Ronan Glynn thanks the public for their cooperation saying, “I really want to take this opportunity to thank the people in Kildare, and also in Laois and Offaly. This was the first time we had to recommend measures. on a regional basis like this.
“I know it was difficult, I can only begin to imagine the impact it had on some communities and businesses in particular, in Kildare in particular.
“The willingness of the people to accept the measures and the willingness of the people to adhere to the guide over the past weeks has protected them, their families and prevented widespread community transmission.”
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