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HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed 611 more cases of Covid-19 in Ireland tonight.
There have also been five more deaths associated with the disease.
This brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,816 deaths in Ireland to 39,584.
Of the cases reported today
- 303 are men / 305 are women
- 59% are under 45 years old
- 50% confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case
- 83 cases have been identified as community transmission
- 218 in Dublin, 63 in Cork, 60 in Donegal, 35 in Galway, 31 in Kildare, and the remaining 204 are in 21 counties.
Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan, who returned to office this week, is currently conducting a press conference at the Department of Health to discuss the current situation with Covid-19 in Ireland.
Holohan said it is “good to be back” in the position, adding that he is “deeply grateful” to Deputy Marketing Director Dr. Ronan Glynn for his work over the past few months.
The CMO said in a statement: “All key indicators of the disease have further deteriorated in the three days since the last NPHET meeting on Sunday, October 4.
“COVID-19 is spreading in our community in a very worrying way. We have to break these chains of transmission, ”he said.
Professor Philip Nolan, chair of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group, said the number of cases and hospitalizations are “growing exponentially”.
“The number of reproducers is now estimated at 1.2. If we fail to reduce viral transmission across the country immediately, we could see 1,100 to 1,500 cases per day and 300 to 450 people in the hospital on November 7, ”he said.
Nolan said Ireland is currently in a “very precarious” position.
The current five-day average number of cases is 509 cases per day.
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He said that although the average number of daily cases in Dublin has dropped in recent days, it is too early to say whether the transmission rate is lower in Dublin than in other counties.
The number of cases outside of Dublin “clearly” has doubled in the course of a week, Nolan said.
Dr. Ronan Glynn said tonight that there have been at least six new Covid-19 outbreaks declared in nursing homes so far in October.
With a report by Cónal Thomas from the Health Department.
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