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Two other deaths and 552 confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed tonight by the Department of Health.
This means that there have now been a total of 1,915 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
With 552 new cases, to date there are a total of 62,002 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases reported today, the Health Department said: 275 are men and 275 are women, 63 percent are under 45 years old and the average age is 36 years.
As for the location of today’s cases: 173 are in Dublin, 86 in Cork, 40 in Limerick, 30 in Donegal, and the remaining 223 cases are in all other counties.
The HPSC said that as of 2:00 p.m. today 330 patients with COVID-19 are hospitalized, of which 47 are in the ICU. 17 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.
It comes as Ireland’s Intensive Care Units are treating the largest number of Covid patients since the end of May.
Currently, 47 people are receiving treatment in intensive care rooms, 6 of whom were admitted during the last day.
However, that is nowhere near the peak of 155, which occurred in early April.
However, infectious disease expert Dr. Jack Lambert fears we could end up there if community transmission is not stopped. “Either these high-risk people are in the community and they’re not wearing masks or people who are family members are bringing Covid-19 home with these high-risk people.
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“So yeah, I think we have to do better than blocking. We need to wear a mask and we have to do all these other interventions that are part of this package.”
According to the Health Protection Surveillance Center, 95,846 tests have been performed in the last seven days, with a positivity rate of 5.2 percent.
Lambert also called for a strategy to get out of Level 5 safely and prevent it from happening again.
He added that the government is not emphasizing “low-tech” solutions such as wearing masks and social distancing as much as it should.
Dr Lambert said: “Wearing masks is appropriate in all situations where you cannot socially distance yourself, and that is most situations in urban communities on the outside and inside.
“Wearing a mask in the community where you are a young adult so as not to take it home to your vulnerable grandmother or vulnerable aunt or uncle who has COVID risk indicators.”
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