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Coronavirus: 8 Deaths; 329 New Cases Confirmed Today

Tuesday, 15 December 2020 09:15

National news updates on Tuesday 15th December.

Latest Figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

There has been a total of 2,134 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Monday 14th December, the HPSC has been notified of 329 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 76,776 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

  • 162 are men / 166 are women

  • 64% are under 45 years of age

  • The median age is 37 years old

  • 86 in Dublin, 41 in Louth, 34 in Donegal, 25 in Limerick, 17 in Kildare and the remaining 126 cases are spread across another 20 counties.

As of 2pm today 196 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 31 are in ICU. 13 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.

 

County

Today's cases (to midnight 14Dec2020)

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

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 14Dec2020)

Ireland

329

84.7

4032

Donegal

34

236.8

377

Louth

41

192.4

248

Kilkenny

12

191.5

190

Carlow

7

165.1

94

Longford

<5

132.1

54

Limerick

25

128.8

251

Monaghan

11

128.7

79

Cavan

12

119.5

91

Mayo

9

108

141

Laois

5

100.4

85

Wicklow

<5

97.6

139

Dublin

86

92.7

1249

Waterford

5

78.3

91

Offaly

6

70.5

55

Tipperary

<5

70.2

112

Kildare

17

64.3

143

Meath

10

62.5

122

Sligo

<5

48.8

32

Wexford

12

48.8

73

Galway

<5

48.4

125

Roscommon

<5

43.4

28

Westmeath

8

36

32

Kerry

8

32.5

48

Cork

7

25.2

137

Leitrim

0

25

8

Clare

<5

23.6

28

 

Financial aid:

The hospitality industry in England is calling for more financial aid, after some areas of the country were moved to the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions.

Thousands of venues will close to customers from tomorrow in London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.

They'll only be allowed to offer takeaway, delivery and click and collect services.

Emma McClarkin's the chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association - she says the industry is being wrongly targeted.

Upward trend:

The Chief Medical Officer says the pattern of COVID-19 is still trending upwards, despite a drop in cases.

264 new infections were recorded yesterday, along with two further deaths.

That compares with 429 cases which were confirmed on Sunday.

However, the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan says the five-day moving average is still going up:

Eastern Europe:

Women in Ireland who've moved from Eastern Europe were more likely to lose their jobs during the first lockdown than others. 

New research has found little difference between the job loss rates among Irish citizens, non-EU nationals and people from Western Europe. 

But the ESRI says women from the states which joined the EU in 2004 are the exception.

Lead researcher Dr Fran McGinnity says it's because they're more likely to work in hospitality. 

COVID-19 rollout plan:

The government is to consider the rollout plan of a COVID-19 vaccine over the coming months at a meeting of the Cabinet this morning.

A report which was prepared from a task force responsible for the rollout will be presented to ministers.

It comes as the Health Products Regulatory Authority urges members of the public who have questions about the vaccine to use reliable sources for their information.

CEO Dr Lorraine Nolan says it's understandable that people would have questions:

Vaccine doses:

Over 14 million Covid-19 vaccine doses will be delivered to Ireland at a cost of €112 million.

Cabinet will consider a report later on how it should be distributed - including the establishment of large, centralised vaccination centres.

A high-level COVID taskforce reported to government last Friday and that will be published this afternoon following a cabinet meeting.

It will set out how vaccines will be secured, transported, stored and ultimately delivered.

The report says there will be five places it will be possible to get a vaccine.

Firstly in long-term residential care homes and healthcare settings like hospitals - in order to give the most vulnerable and frontline health workers first access. 

Later next year, large scale vaccine sites will be set up in a similar manner to how large testing centres were put together.

Finally in later stages, the vaccinations will be available from GPs and pharmacists. 

While the Department of Health expects the first vaccinations to be done in the week after the European Medicines Agency approves a vaccine, it will be much later into 2021 before any sort of wide-scale vaccination is achieved. 

Ireland has advanced purchase orders with five companies which would provide 14.6 million doses at a cost of €112 million. 

However, even once approved, not all of those doses will arrive in the country at once, which makes timelines very hard to predict.

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