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Coronavirus: No New Deaths Recorded Today

Monday, 7 December 2020 07:09

National news updates on Monday 7th December.

Latest figures:

There have been no new deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today. There has been a total of 2,099 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
 

As of midnight Sunday 6th December, the HPSC has been notified of 242 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 74,468* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 
 

Of the cases notified today;

  • 113 are men / 129 are women
  • 63% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 37 years old
  • 76 in Dublin, 27 in Donegal, 22 in Kilkenny, 16 in Galway, 14 in Louth and the remaining 87 cases are spread across 18 other counties. 

As of 2pm today 223 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 28 are in ICU. 9 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

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 20 confirmed cases. The figure of 74,468 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 06 December 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

Today's cases (to midnight 06Dec2020)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (23Nov2020 to 06Dec2020)

New Cases during last 14 days (23Nov2020 to 06Dec2020)

Ireland

242

80.4

3,830

Donegal

27

232.4

370

Kilkenny

22

172.3

171

Louth

14

156.7

202

Limerick

8

139

271

Monaghan

0

120.5

74

Wicklow

<5

118

168

Carlow

5

117.7

67

Dublin

76

94.2

1,269

Tipperary

<5

90.9

145

Longford

<5

88.1

36

Mayo

9

73.6

96

Waterford

13

73.2

85

Offaly

7

65.4

51

Cavan

<5

61.7

47

Laois

<5

55.5

47

Galway

16

55

142

Kildare

9

49.9

111

Meath

<5

49.7

97

Roscommon

<5

43.4

28

Clare

<5

35.3

42

Cork

10

35

190

Sligo

<5

30.5

20

Kerry

0

29.1

43

Westmeath

<5

25.9

23

Wexford

<5

20

30

Leitrim

0

15.6

5

Case Breakdown:

Healthcare workers and students are among the groups with the highest rate of Covid 19 infections.

That’s according to data released by the Department of Health and analysed by the Irish Independent.

Up until midnight on November 22nd there were almost 71 thousand cases of Covid 19 confirmed here.

Of those, 11,900 or 23 per cent were healthcare workers. 

This is followed by students including school children which made up 3,154 cases or 6.2 per cent.

Teachers accounted for 666 confirmed cases.

Food drink and tobacco production workers made up 3.4 per cent, those in sales accounted for 2 per cent while construction workers made up 1.4 per cent.
 
Gardai and local government workers accounted for 0.3 per cent of cases 

Those workers with the lowest number of infections included textile workers, those in religious occupations and the army. 

Figures:

An infectious diseases specialist says officials must publish the exact dates of a batch of positive Covid-19 tests reported late over the weekend. 

100 or so tests on Saturday were delayed because of technical errors -- but it's not clear how old they are. 

Yesterday officials reported 301 more positive tests, and no further deaths. 

Professor Sam McConkey says the Department of Health has maintained a high standard of transparency throughout the pandemic. 

He says officials shouldn't slip up now. 

Ireland Vaccine:

Pharmacists are calling on the Government to ensure they're included in plans to roll out Covid 19 vaccines.

The Irish Pharmacy Union's members want to help vaccinate the population and can carry out 10,000 vaccines per day at least.

It says a safe and effective vaccine could arrive within weeks, but it will still take time to ensure a vaccination programme is rolled out. 

IPU Secretary General, Darragh O'Loughlin says pharmacists can also help ease the burden on GPs:

UK Vaccine:

The first doses of Covid-19 vaccine will begin to be delivered to people in Northern Ireland today.

Around 12,500 people are expected to get the shot there this week.

People aged 80 and over, care home workers and some healthcare staff are first in line to get immunised.

Saffron Cordery from NHS Providers in the UK explains why it's not being given to everyone working in the health service:

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