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Public health experts have urged the government to postpone the reopening of wet bars in Dublin due to serious concerns about the increase in Covid-19 cases in the capital.
The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) recommended canceling the reopening as another 107 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Dublin.
Nphet also called for the rules on indoor gatherings to be significantly lowered to allow only two different households to meet indoors.
Current rules allow six people from three different households to hold gatherings indoors.
There are serious concerns in Nphet and in the Government about the increase in new cases of Covid in family homes in Dublin.
The council was presented to the government this afternoon and will be considered over the weekend before the cabinet meeting next week.
The latest figures across the country recorded 196 new cases with no further deaths.
Now there have been a total of 1,781 deaths and 30,360 confirmed cases.
Of the cases reported today, 103 are men and 91 are women, with 61% being under 45 years of age.
43 percent have been confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case and 37 cases have been identified as community transmission.
107 cases are in Dublin, 12 in Waterford, 11 in Limerick, 8 in Wicklow, 7 in Meath, 7 in Kildare, 6 in Laois, 6 in Westmeath, and the remaining 32 cases are in Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, and Wexford.
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Medical Director of the Department of Health, said; “Today we have at least 37 cases related to community transmission. 27 of the current cases are over 65 years old.
“By limiting our contacts, we limit the opportunity for COVID-19 to spread through the community and ultimately protect our families, our communities and those who are most vulnerable to the most severe impacts of the disease,” he added .
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