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Belmullet, Co Mayo continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 in the state, more than three times the national average, new figures show.
About one in 17 people on the remote peninsula have tested positive for the virus in the past two weeks. The area has an incidence of 6,031 per 100,000, with 760 cases among the population of 12,600 in the last 14 days. The incidence rate in Belmullet has more than tripled in the last week, up from 2,111 per 100,000 last Thursday.
South Dundalk, Co Louth, has the second highest rate of the virus at 3,782. There were 1,227 new cases among the local area population of 32,436. Health services in the area have reported strong pressure to deal with the number of cases in recent days.
The latest data from the Health Protection Surveillance Center (HPSC), released Thursday, examines the incidence rate of Covid-19 in 14 days through January 11 in each of the 166 electoral areas of the state.
The Adare-Rathkeale local electoral area in Limerick has the third highest rate at 3,118 per 100,000 residents.
Tramore in Co Waterford has the fourth highest rate of virus spread, with an incidence of 3,106, followed by the local Ballybay-Clones in Co Monaghan, which had a rate of 3,054.
The national incidence rate of the virus is currently 1,410 per 100,000 people. Data on the rate of spread of the virus in local areas is published on the government’s Covid-19 Data Hub each week. Areas near the border continued to have a higher rate of Covid-19, with five of the top 10 areas high located in these counties, with three in Co Monaghan.
Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, continued to have a high incidence of 2,766 per 100,000 people.
Other areas with high rates included Carrickmacross-Castleblayney, Co Monaghan (2,682), Cork City to the southeast (2,452), and Milford, Co Donegal (2,439).
In Dublin, the three areas with the highest rates are in the south of the county. Central Tallaght had the highest rate of the virus in Dublin, with 967 cases in a population of 43,215, giving an incidence rate of 2,237. Rathfarnham-Templeogue had the second highest rate in Dublin at 2,087. The local Firhouse area had an incidence of 1,970, with 674 cases in the last 14 days in a population of 34,202. The Dublin area with the lowest rate was Balbriggan in Fingal at 864 per 100,000.
Dungarvan, Co Waterford, had the lowest rate of the virus in the past two weeks, with 101 cases in a population of 20,497, for an incidence rate of 492. A local area in Athlone had the second lowest rate of the virus, with 506 cases per 100,000.
Other areas with fees include Arklow, Co Wicklow (530), Conamara North, Co Galway (593) and Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim (598).
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