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Coronavirus: 772 New Cases Confirmed, 6 Deaths

Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:16

Covid-19 update on Friday 20th October.

There are 772 more cases of Covid-19 in the Republic, while six people have died with the virus. 

228 cases are in Dublin, with 120 in Cork and 50 in Meath, while all counties in the country have recorded cases. 

But the chief medical officer, Tony Holohan, says the overall situation has improved, but it's still early days. 

The death toll now stands at 1,908, and there have been 61,059 cases since the pandemic began. 

Of the cases notified today; 362 are men / 406 are women

64% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 36 years old 228 in Dublin, 120 in Cork, 50 in Meath, 41 in Donegal, 41 in Galway and the remaining 292 cases are spread across all remaining counties.

As of 2pm today 325 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 42 are in ICU.

15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said; “The overall situation has improved, but we have to remember that these are very early days.

This improvement will only be maintained if we keep going in our efforts.

“We have to remember that incidence is increasing in older age groups, who are particularly vulnerable to this disease.

The way in which we can protect them is if we continue to drive down transmission across the whole population.

” Dr. Desmond Hickey, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said; “As of today, Ireland has seen a reduction in its 7-day incidence rate of 36% when compared to the previous 7 days.

Ireland’s progress is notable when compared to the rapidly deteriorating picture across Europe.

It is paramount that we sustain and continue to drive down disease incidence as much as possible in the coming weeks.”

Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said “The reproduction number is now close to 1.0 nationally.

This is the first time in a number of weeks that we have been able to report positive indicators of the disease. However, our experience to date shows this type of progress is very fragile.

We should take these positive signs as an indication our efforts are starting to work, the critical thing now is to keep it up, the virus will seek out any opportunity to spread; over the next weeks let’s make sure we don’t give it that opportunity, by driving R and case numbers as low as possible.”

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE, said; “There has been a significant reduction in emergency presentations and admission in recent weeks, when compared with activity last year.

Our Emergency Departments have in place pathways of care to keep patients and staff safe. If you need urgent or emergency care in our hospitals, this care can be provided safely.” The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 10 confirmed cases. The figure of 61,059 confirmed cases reflects this.

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 29 October 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

  

Today’s cases

(to midnight 29OCT2020)

  

14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(16OCT2020 to 29OCT2020)

  

New Cases during last 14 days

(16OCT2020 to 29OCT2020)

  

IRELAND

  

772

  

287.1

  

13,672

  

Cavan

  

16

  

669.5

  

510

  

Meath

  

50

  

546.5

  

1,066

  

Westmeath

  

24

  

413.4

  

367

  

Sligo

  

9

  

363.2

  

238

  

Galway

  

41

  

341.4

  

881

  

Cork

  

120

  

336.5

  

1,827

  

Donegal

  

41

  

322.3

  

513

  

Limerick

  

38

  

313.5

  

611

  

Monaghan

  

12

  

304.6

  

187

  

Longford

  

8

  

296.0

  

121

  

Kildare

  

37

  

293.0

  

652

  

Louth

  

29

  

292.5

  

377

  

Carlow

  

<5

  

289.8

  

165

  

Kerry

  

13

  

272.8

  

403

  

Clare

  

14

  

255.9

  

304

  

Dublin

  

228

  

251.6

  

3,390

  

Wexford

  

<5

  

241.8

  

362

  

Roscommon

  

13

  

241.7

  

156

  

Mayo

  

18

  

240.6

  

314

  

Offaly

  

14

  

236.0

  

184

  

Laois

  

11

  

233.8

  

198

  

Waterford

  

12

  

212.6

  

247

  

Kilkenny

  

5

  

151.2

  

150

  

Wicklow

  

9

  

139.7

  

199

  

Tipperary

  

<5

  

132.2

  

211

  

Leitrim

  

<5

  

121.7

  

39

  

 

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