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The new figures show a further increase in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in hospitals and intensive care units.
The latest executive report from the Overnight Health Service puts the number of confirmed cases in the hospital at 88, with 16 of these patients in ICU.
At the same time, last week, the number of confirmed cases in hospitals was 57, ten of them in the ICU.
There are also 74 suspected cases in hospitals, four of them in intensive care. There are 45 critical care beds available for adults in the hospital system.
Meanwhile, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control has recorded the 14-day incidence rate of coronavirus in Ireland at 66.6 per 100,000.
Ireland is ranked 15th out of 31 countries listed by the ECDC. The UK rate is 70.7, while the two most affected countries are Spain and France, with 300.5 and 192.5 respectively.
The HSE has said it has an ongoing agreement with a German lab for more testing capacity, if the total system capacity of 100,000 tests is exceeded here.
The German agreement has a limit of 2,000 tests per day. German laboratory tests were previously used in the pandemic in Ireland.
The HSE said that since May, it has had the system’s capacity to perform more than 100,000 tests a week on the swab, laboratory and contact tracing system.
He said the 100,000 tests are not a goal, but a total system capacity.
The tests are currently carried out in the laboratory network of 47 public and private laboratories. The laboratories have a daily capacity of 11,000 tests and conduct community tests.
The HSE said hospital labs make up the rest and have a total capacity of 15,000 tests.
Meanwhile, the Health Service Executive will receive an EU grant of 3.8 million euros to help pay the cost of the pandemic.
The sum will be paid from the European Commission’s mobility package, within the framework of its emergency support instrument.
The grant will be used to pay part of the cost of transporting personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical equipment to Ireland from outside the EU between April and July this year.
Eighteen EU member states and the UK are receiving financial support for cargo operations undertaken as part of the response to Covid-19.
The operations were funded on the basis of a formula developed by the commission to ensure an equitable distribution of funds among the candidate countries.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said the funding is an example of the support provided by the EU.
“This is a timely reminder that European solidarity is an important element of our response to the pandemic, and we will continue to work with the commission and EU colleagues to share information and coordinate actions as much as possible,” he said.
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