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The Central Local Electoral Area of the city of Galway has the highest incidence of Covid-19 in 14 days in the country with 767.7 cases per 100,000 people in the two weeks until last Monday, March 1.
This is 3.8 times higher than the national average, which was 201.2 cases per 100,000 people on that date.
However, Galway City’s high disease incidence rate still represents a very significant improvement compared to the previous Monday, when it was 1,300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants after a rapid increase in the previous two weeks.
It is understood that the large outbreak linked to students in the city that infected more than 200 homes and 440 people, highlighted yesterday by the Director of Public Health of the region, was a key factor in this increase in cases in the city of Galway Central.
The second highest 14-day incidence of Covid-19 in the two weeks to March 1 was recorded in the East Limerick City Local Election Area with 608.3 cases per 100,000 residents.
This was followed by Longford Local Polling Area in third place, where 579.6 people per 100,000 were infected during the same two-week period.
The incidence rate of the disease in both Limerick City East and Longford has increased in each of the last two weeks.
The fourth highest incidence of the disease in the country was 523.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, registered in the Ballymun-Finglas Local Electoral Area in Dublin.
It is followed in fifth place by Birr in Co Offaly, where 498.5 people per 100,000 have been infected with Covid-19 in the fourteen days until last Monday.
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