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Professor Sam McConkey of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) has said that it is clear that the Covid-19 outbreak here is growing slowly but steadily.
He said GPs are seeing many more people with flu-like symptoms now, but so far it is a fraction of the levels seen during the first wave of coronavirus in Ireland.
Professor McConkey said: “What we know of a general practitioner system called: ‘Influenza-like disease surveillance’ that in Ireland GPs were seeing around 200 cases that were presented to them every week at that time for every 100,000 people Now that rate has risen to about 25.
“While in June it was exceptionally reduced to two cases of influenza-like illnesses per 100,000.”
Nearly 360 new cases of Covid-19 were reported this weekend over the weekend, the highest number since early May.
That included some 231 cases reported by health officials on Saturday, prompting warnings that people in Dublin, in particular, should limit their social contacts, and another 138 reported on Sunday.
There are now a total of 29,672 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
No new deaths were reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Center. In total, there have been 1,777 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
There are currently 49 patients in the hospital due to Covid-19 and six people are in intensive care units.
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