Covid-19 Ireland good news: important signs that lockdown is working as incidence rates plummet across the country

Currently, only seven counties have a Covid-19 incidence rate higher than the national average.

The country has seen its number of daily cases drop in recent weeks, with just 270 registered on Monday.

And looking at the latest numbers, only Donegal, Limerick, Meath, Cork, WestmeathDublin and Mayo are above the national average, which now stands at 161.

On October 26, this figure was at 309.9, while last week it fell to 248.

The big drop shows that the Level Five restrictions have worked across the board.

Donegal, which has the highest incidence rate in the country at 275.8, is down from 309.7 last Monday.

Only Limerick and Meath are also above the 200 mark.

Last week, Buncrana was the local area with the highest Covid-19 incidence rate of 594.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.

This was slightly lower than 603.6 on October 26.

Of the new Covid-19 cases reported in Ireland on Monday, there were 103 in Dublin, 34 in Limerick, 20 in Donegal, 12 in Cork, nine in Kerry, nine in Kilkenny, with the remaining 83 cases spread across 20 other counties. .

Here is a breakdown of the incidence rate across all counties in Ireland:

National – 161

Donegal – 275.8

Limerick – 213.4

Meath – 212.8

Cork – 182.4

Westmeath – 179.1

Dublin – 173.7

May – 163.2

Louth – 159.1

Longford – 156.6

Cavan – 156.2

Laois – 155.8

Sligo – 155.6

Kerry – 155

Roscommon – 150.3

Carlow – 147.5

Monaghan – 140.1

Clare – 138.9

Waterford – 137.7

Kilkenny – 134

Galway – 125.9

Kildare – 122.2

Offaly – 118

Tipperary – 115.9

Wicklow – 82.9

Wexford – 74.8 and

Leitrim – 37.4.