The country’s Covid-19 death toll reaches 530 after 44 more people die



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IRELAND has flattened the Covid-19 curve so much that there will be no peak, said Dr Tony Holohan, CMO director of marketing.

Speaking on RTE’s Late Late Show, he said he is “hopeful about May 5” and says Ireland is “chasing the virus.”

    New measures will be described today to help stop the spread of Covid-19 in nursing homes.

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New measures will be described today to help stop the spread of Covid-19 in nursing homes.Credit: Collins Photo Agency

Meanwhile, a new graph shows that daily deaths from Covid-19 in Ireland may have peaked ten days ago on April 7, and have nearly halved since then.

The death toll in Ireland Covid-19 is now 571 after 41 more people were confirmed dead from the disease.

23 of the patients who died were women and 18 men, the health chiefs confirmed.

The median age of deaths reported today is 83 out of 35 of those who died were reported to have underlying conditions.

The total number of coronavirus cases is now 14,758 after 630 new cases were confirmed by Irish laboratories and 148 were diagnosed as positive in a German laboratory.

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