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More than 9,000 people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Ireland have recovered, according to official figures.
Statistics from the Health Department show that 8,377 people have recovered in the community, while 856 of those hospitalized have also recovered.
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The number of confirmed infections rose to 16,040 on Tuesday, with 388 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.
Tuesday marked the first time the department described statistics regarding recoveries.
Medical director Dr. Tony Holohan said the figures were in line with recovery rates in other countries.
He said: “He is giving us an image that is probably similar to what our understanding, our expectation might have been.”
“We are not surprised in terms of what we might have expected, and some of the figures we would have had all along about our hospitalization rates, our intensive care admission rates, are suggesting that we are having an experience of the disease that is consistent with the international scene. “
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