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The country will enter the highest level of restrictions under the government’s five-tier plan starting at midnight on Wednesday for six weeks in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that he foresees a cycle of progressive Covid-19 restrictions as the country tries to stop the spread of the virus.
Northern Ireland is also subject to tighter restrictions with schools closed for two weeks and much of the hotel sector closed for at least four weeks. However, most of the outlets remain open in the north.
Cavan and Meath counties have the highest infection rates in the Republic.
In Cavan, the 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population is 909.7. In Meath, it now stands at 590.6 and in Monaghan at 402.4. The next highest counties are Sligo at 355.5 and Westmeath at 336.8.
The Derry City and Strabane council area remains one of the worst hit in the UK and Ireland, with a case incidence rate of 1,716.5 per 100,000 people over the past 14 days.
That’s almost twice the next highest rate, which is 995.3 per 100,000 in Belfast.
North Korea’s chief scientific adviser Professor Ian Young told BBC Radio Foyle last week that “there were almost certainly one, two, maybe three events that we call super spreaders” in the Derry and Strabane area, where someone who was particularly infectious entered. contact with a large number of people.
The latest data shows that the infection rate in Dublin over the past two weeks is 239.1 cases per 100,000 people, below the national rate of 279.3 and lower than in 15 other counties.
Within the city itself, infection rates vary. Dublin North West, an area that covers Smithfield, Phibsborough, Finglas and Blanchardstown, has the highest rate today, with 342.4 reported cases per 100,000 people during the last fortnight.
Dublin South, which covers Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire, Stillorgan and Shankill, has a rate of 102.9 cases per 100,000.
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday, Mr. Martin said he recognized that the introduction of Level 5 restrictions would create “a lot of anxiety and hardship” for workers and would be a “huge blow” to people, particularly business owners who They have been struggling to save their livelihoods since the last shutdown.
The nationwide restrictions go into effect at midnight Wednesday and last until December 1.
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