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Coronavirus: One Death And 429 New Cases

Sunday, 13 December 2020 00:00

News updates for Sunday 13th December 2020.

Latest figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1 additional death related to COVID-19.

There has been a total of 2,124 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Saturday 12th December, the HPSC has been notified of 429 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 76,185 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

198 are men / 230 are women

66% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 34 years old

122 in Dublin, 46 in Donegal, 30 in Limerick, 22 in Laois, 20 in Cork and the remaining 189 cases are spread across all other counties.

Offaly has 10 news cases and there are less than five in Westmeath.

As of 2pm today 193 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 31 are in ICU. 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said; “Today, I am concerned that we are seeing the incidence of COVID-19 rising again. 429 is a large number of cases by the standard of recent weeks and the five day moving average has now increased above 300 per day.

“Our efforts in Level 5 in recent weeks brought the 14-day incidence rate down to 78 per 100,000 population, put us in a position of having the lowest disease incidence in Europe and ultimately protected many people and saved many lives.

“Take today’s figures as a sign that we all must now reduce our social contacts, limit our interactions with those outside our households, weigh the risks of what socialising we are planning over the next two weeks, so that we can all have as safe a Christmas as possible.”

County

Today's cases (to midnight 12Dec2020)

14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 12Dec2020)

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 12Dec2020)

Ireland

429

84.3

4,012

Donegal

46

219.9

350

Kilkenny

18

198.5

197

Louth

16

174.6

225

Carlow

8

159.8

91

Longford

11

144.3

59

Monaghan

<5

136.8

84

Limerick

30

133.9

261

Cavan

10

109

83

Mayo

11

107.3

140

Wicklow

11

103.9

148

Laois

22

94.5

80

Dublin

122

94.3

1270

Tipperary

15

81.5

130

Waterford

<5

72.3

84

Offaly

10

68

53

Meath

15

60.5

118

Galway

11

60.1

155

Kildare

16

56.6

126

Sligo

8

48.8

32

Roscommon

<5

44.9

29

Wexford

11

36.7

55

Clare

<5

32

38

Westmeath

<5

27

24

Cork

20

26.2

142

Leitrim

<5

25

8

Kerry

<5

20.3

30

Cases:

An infectious diseases specialist says we shouldn't be satisfied with hundreds of new Covid-19 infections a day.

The national infection rate has remained roughly static after 248 more cases were confirmed last night.

Three more patients are known to have died.

NPHET's most recent models show the outbreak here has stabilised at roughly that level -- and won't dip much lower.

We have the lowest rates in Europe -- but Professor Sam McConkey believes we can still do better:

Bakery:

Up to 17 people at a Co Louth bakery have tested positive for Covid-19.

Bosses at McCloskeys in Drogheda have confirmed there's been an outbreak -- and shut down the plant.

There are 200 employees working at the plant and six retail stores in Louth and Meath.

Louth TD Peter Fitzpatrick says the family firm deserves praise for acting quickly:

Charlie Pride:

One of the first Black artists to break through in the country music scene, Charley Pride has died at the age of 86.

A spokesperson said Pride died yesterday of complications from COVID-19.

His death came just weeks after his final performance at the Country Music Awards last month.

Known for hits like Kiss an Angel Good Mornin and Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone? Pride was hugely popular in Ireland and gigged in Northern Ireland during the Troubles when many other artists stayed away.

Vaccine:

Shipping of the first doses of Covid vaccines for the US population begins today with administration of the vaccine scheduled to being tomorrow.

The announcement was made after Food and Drug Administration gave the go ahead for emergency use of the Pfizer/ BioNTech’s vaccine on Friday.

General Gustave Perna said as many as 40 million doses of the vaccine could be available by the end of the month.

The US is the sixth country to give the go ahead to the country. Britain was the first.

The EU is expected to approve the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine on the 29th of this month while a decision on the Moderna vaccine is due on January 12 at the latest.

Local figures:

248 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Republic and three more patients have died.

There were cases recorded in all counties except Clare -- with 99 in Dublin, 21 in Louth, 16 in Limerick,15 in Meath, and 13 in Cavan.

The infection rate is roughly static, and now stands at 81.5 cases per hundred thousand people over the last 14 days.

Nine new cases have been confirmed in Laois with less than five being reported in both Westmeath and Offaly.

The O Moore county has the highest incidence rate in the region on 70. Offaly's rate is 60, while Westmeath has one of the lowest in the country at 25.

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