Midlands County Has Second Highest Contraction Rate Of Covid-19 Per 100,000 People

Dublin has the highest rate in the country.

Westmeath has the second highest coronavirus incident rate per 100,000 of the population in the country after Dublin. 

There are now 3,447 confirmed cases of the covid-19 here and 85 people have died.

In total, there's now 136 confirmed cases in the midlands.

Westmeath has 80 people with the illness, there are 40 patients in Offaly and Laois has 16. 

The number of critical cases across the country continue to rise.

Infections Disease physician Paddy Mallon says those cases need to be kept at a steady rate:

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