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HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE this evening reported 1,620 more cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
A further 12 people with the coronavirus have also died, according to the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).
This brings to 2,237 the total number of people with Covid-19 who have died in Ireland and 91,779 total confirmed coronavirus cases.
Of the cases notified today:
794 are men / 819 are women
65% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 34 years old
498 in Dublin, 203 in Limerick, 89 in Galway, 73 in Cork, 67 in Mayo and the remaining 690 cases are spread across all other counties.
Chair of the NPHET Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan said: “The epidemiological situation is very serious and the virus is spreading rapidly amongst all age groups, increasing the risk to those most vulnerable to severe infection, such as the medically vulnerable and people over 60 years of age.”
He said the R-number currently stands at at least 1.6-1.8. The growth rate is estimated at 7%-10%.
“We project significant further increase in cases and hospitalisations in the coming days before public health measures take effect and are likely to see over 700-1000 people in hospital with COVID-19 early in the New Year,” Nolan said.
While it is difficult to face into further restrictions, it is vital that everyone plays their part by following the public health advice to protect those most vulnerable in the population.
Nolan said if the R-number is reduced to 1.4, we’ll be looking at 2,000 cases per day by 9 January and 3,000 cases per day by 23 January.
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“If we bring the reproduction number down, but not enough, if we bring it down to 1.1, we’ll be looking at 1,800 cases a day by 6 January and close to 2,000 cases per day by the end of January,” he added.
“If we supress transmission of the virus, if we bring the reproduction number down to 0.9, we should peak at around 1,800 cases a day in early January and then slowly bring the disease back under control, to around 1,200 cases a day by the end of January.
“I would hope we can do better than that, but we need to at least do that.”
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said: “We are once again in the mitigation stage of this pandemic. The alarming escalation in the incidence of the virus in the general population gives great cause for concern.”
“This disease is now widespread in our communities and as a result we are asking everyone to behave as if they are a close contact.”
The 14-day incidence rate now stands at 296.7 cases per 100,000 people.
Earlier today, the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said people need to “look at their plans” in the coming weeks and reduce their contact with others as the country deals with the third wave of Covid-19.
The government last night announced the country would re-enter a Level 5 lockdown for at least one month.
- Additional reporting by Press Association.
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Once tonight is over and January starts people usually tend to hind indoors anyways, hopefully cases drop like a stone in 12-15 days. Although certain protests may hinder the process
@Don: vile, any excuse to act victimised. Rules apparently don’t apply to them and if we all sit back and allow this we will be slaves to it from here on out
@David Lee: hmm unlikely for a bit. The Xmas family dinners will only be starting to show around now and you still have to give them a week to deteriorate to ventilation and week or more to die.
Last few hours of an absolute horrible year for the whole world… R.I.P to all those that didn’t make it…thoughts are with all those familys all over this world … we are fighting a war…
@Jonnie Marre: dont forget the slip nade months ago on rte 6.01 news about there being a level 6. Serms to tally with above headlines. RIP to everyone who died this year whatever the cause and sincere sympathies to their families and friends who coukd not grieve properly
@Rob Foley: Nphet only advise the government on what they should do, it’s the government that make the decisions. In early December, Nphet warned against a lifting of restrictions as cases would inevitably rise. The government chose to ignore that advice.
@Conor Kennelly: living with the virus what happened to this government policy. The public and vested interests and media lead the charge to re open for Christmas and the govetnment caved to the pressure
@Rob Foley: how would you have dealt with an unprecedented widespread disease that’s affected every country across the globe? I’m genuinely interested. I’m sure you’ve given it a tremendous amount of thought given your criticism of the medical professionals……..
@Tony Humphreys: OMG it’s like he had one job, all his predictions were correct but was largely ignored by the government who were afraid of upsetting the precious individuals who have tantrums and think it’s so unfair they’re not allowed go for a pint and why can’t the elderly just be locked away. waaaaaaah
@Conor Kennelly: ya that’s correct
And the Government trusted the people to do the right thing.
Just goes to show that we mess up as much or more than People in Government
@Rob Foley: is that the same tony holohan THAT was in charge wen all the crap with the cervical checks scandal happen and look what happened people dying he should have stayed away wen he had he time off dr death
@Conor Kennelly: yes but their jumping ahead with their doctrine in public first, in order to bounce the government to make the only decision which is nphets.
@Barry Evans: Let’s say we will call him “Dr T ” for now. What exactly has he done in the last major decisions that he has had to make.. cervical cancer check, elderly homes scandal … And now this.. Excellent CV so far Dr T and now he is advising us to behave and do the right thing to protect the very people that he killed hhmmmm yeah I’d like a different opinion from someone who actually gives a $H!t about the people of Ireland.
I think , all things considered, Ireland has done pretty good. There’s not many places in Europe I would prefer to be . Plus, relatively, your economy is in good shape. Once we’re all vaccinated this country is going boom .
Good times ahead
@Jonnie Marre: Exactly saying they can’t cope with amount coming for tests. Not contacting close contacts. Cases increasingly and testing decreasing. Maybe they should have kept all centres open over Xmas. They have already closed several smaller sites here and people have to travel up to 15 miles to get to new centre. If you have no car then its public transport that makes a lot of sense doesn’t it. Why have they not got enough staff it is crazy they had long enough. I know several who applied for C/T never heard a word back. HSE and NPHET are more worried about our crumbling, inadequate underfunded,understaffed hospitals. The ones they did nothing to improve in 10 months then the people who are ending up in them.
Minister McEntee earlier told Late Breakfast With Mark Cagney: “We have all these restrictions in place and we have ways of enforcing them.
“But this is really about asking people to stay at home for the month of January”.
“We can’t say for definite that this is going to end in January – but if we can stick to it rigidly over the next month, then we will hopefully see that sharp decline”.
On the vaccine rollout, she said: “We don’t anticipate that we can have everybody vaccinated this year.
“But what we do anticipate is that the more vulnerable people we get with the vaccine… the more of our medical professionals and everybody else, it reduces the risk overall and it allows things to maybe open up where we don’t have that impact on our health service as we currently see now”.
@Paula Jones: Unbelievable isn’t It. Telling us for months now, have patience, follow rules the vaccine will get us back to some normality. Now is its could be end of year which in Irish government speak probably means Jan 2022…if we are lucky! It will be constant lockdown for God knows how long because they have no idea how to move forward.
Just look at what’s going on up in Blanchardstown today, it’s a Disgrace and will only add to the number of cases going through the roof in Jan. Lock it all down including the off licences , it has to be done to save lives and stop the disease in it’s tracks . Unless there are no house parties etc we won’t see a reduction in numbers… Mehole Martin needs to show some balls
@Tony Humphreys: exactly same before Christmas everything crammed into a couple of weeks. closing shops has the opposite effect especially when they reopen.
@Tony Humphreys: You know there is a miracle thing called the Internet. No one is forcing people to go to crowded shopping centres looking for Christmas bargains..
@Edward Natali: Not everyone has access to Internet, not everyone is able to use it, not everyone feels safe using it especially some elderly. So stop with the condescension.
Please everyone if you are feeling unwell contact your doctor. Stay away from others. Anyone that has covid or think they may have it do not take chances and please let others know. Let’s hope for a better year everyone,
@Gary O Sullivan: Blah blah blah. I’m sure that will be comforting to the 12 families who’ve lost a loved one and the 2237 in total who have lost their lives.
@Seán Ó Briain: yes Sean I’m sure the families of loved ones who died ” from? With? Because? ” of the virus are furious with Gary for saying blah blah blah… Gary is asking a question which a lot of people are wondering, it’s all covid covid covid.. The article didn’t state AGAIN if they died from it, with it or because of it.. if the MSM are content with shoving it down our throats every chance they get then tell us all the details, facts , everything we need to know. Let them explain why they can’t have a debate about the virus live on air, why can’t they listen to other professionals opinions? Lots of questions with no answers only blah blah blah covid, wear your mask, wash your hands blah blah B0ll0ck$
@Hugh Mc Donnell: yes, that’s the biggest contradiction I’ve ever heard. If they wanted a lockdown, why didn’t they implement one, these restrictions are no different to what we had in November!
@Newto2016: The under reporting of cases in hospitals of patients who are there for non covid reasons and aquire it, is disgraceful. Staff numbers also.How many people were discharged for Christmas and subsequently infected their contacts. We ll never know. Journalists don’t ask questions at these briefings just parrot for Nphet.
@Newto2016: Is the lockdown – the removal of liberty by law – a huge coverup by the CMO becase they have lost control of the situation in healthcare settings. Settings the CMO is responsible for.
We are under a dictator who is covering up his own incompetence by putting hundreds of thousands out of work, destroying families, and most of all removing basic human rights. How many will die because of missed diagnosis, mental health issues. If the government disagree he goes straight to the press to whip up a storm and get his own way.
It is criminal what is going on.
@Newto2016: now being reported on RTE that close contacts of positive cases are requested not to apply for a test. It’s amazing that the HSE/NPHET constantly screw up the aspects they are responsible for yet people hang on their every word.
Of course when numbers inevitably drop because Asymptomatic cases aren’t being tested it will claimed that lockdown has worked.
@Tony Humphreys: “We are under a dictator” – bit dramatic there, Tony?
Anyway, what’s your plan? It sounds like you must have a good one. Can’t wait to hear it.
@SHA: why would they report it? They don’t want anyone to know about it. They don’t want anyone to know much about anything, just point fingers, cause panic and confusion. Smoke and mirrors, argue with each other why they do what they want in the background.
@Tony Humphreys: is that the same tony holohan THAT was in charge wen all the crap with the cervical checks scandal happen and look what happened people dying he should have stayed away wen he had he time off dr death
@SHA: of course you do know that many of the answers are in the HSE hospital days status reports… every current case in every hospital, every suspect case in every hospital and every new covid-19 case in hospital – all reported at 8am, 2pm and 8pm…
“How many were discharged for Christmas?” you ask – weill one thiing that maybe you do not know is that covid-19 positive patients are discharged every day – the HSE have a protocol so if a patient is detected covid-19 in hospital (as part of an admission screening process, in A&E, or elsewhere) if they are NOT ill enough to need to be in hospital they are discharged to isolate at home or in City West.
Cvoid-19 patients are not just kept in hospital unless they need to be there a process to discharge and isolate…
If you look at the reports I mention you can, with simple addition and subtraction work out how many, if any, cofid-19 positive patients were released or discharged for Christmas…
In other sources you can see how many cases in various areas… there is a ton of data out in the Public Domain when one goes looking. The simple evening report is npt going to cover every aspect – but that does not mean it is not available – it just might not be presented in a matter that answers every individual question
.Journalists could go looks too – but then the headline points are all most people read – The rest is up to us to go and seek and if not available in the format that you want then maybe write to the HSE … anyway I have given you a good starting point – today’s report will not be available for afew hours yet as the 8pm statistics need to be reports and occasionally there is a day or two delay – but the reports go right back months and all the data available
One other useful source is the data tables that are used to display the Hub and Covisd-19 app data… https://covid-19.geohive.ie/search there are 13 pages of data and and screens – opening the Data will allow you drill down for info like hospital numbers, ICU, tests etc.it is just the data to back up the hub but has the historic data as well
@Tony Humphreys: Facts don’t count, worldwide examples of best and worst protocol don’t matter to you.
Numbers that show we have been doing better than most other countries in Europe mean nothing.
You are right Dr Tony is evil end of story, is that it?
Tested positive myself yesterday.. Started feeling unwell early last week.. Looks like I picked it up thru work (working in a school)… Have to say its the worst I have ever been hit down with something in my life and wouldn’t wish it on anyone having just spent the last week in bed… Thank god on the home straight now.. I’m 34 and It knocked the wind out of me so please everyone just take care and mind yourselves.. Happy new year
Government has a “firm intention” to open schools Jan 11.
Airports are open and people can come and go as they please.
“Lockdown” has a huge number of exceptions.
This is truly a shambles, all half measures that don’t won’t really curb the spread and doesn’t make any group happy while they try to suit everyone.
Grow a backbone and make the tough decisions or don’t “lockdown” at all
@Merlin Lancelot: you believe the chinese authorities numbers? The country whose authorities tried to keep it hidden! That came along and persecuted the doctor that tried getting word out until he died! That has sentenced a journalist to 4 years imprisonment for reporting on it, and even noware trying to influence the WHO investigators visiting in the new year that it did not start there but was imported!
@tommy: the mess now is because of muppets flaunting the restrictions that were put in place so lockdowns could be lifted. It’s not the Government I would be blaming for this mess
@Joe_X: whose decision to relax the restrictions when we still had over 200 new cases a day in early dec?? How come NZ n Australia can have this under control too besides China?? Of coz the Irish government made MANY wrong decisions through this pandemic!!
@Joe_X:
The Chinese took extreme actions to deal with it. Heard a guy on newstalk living in Wuhan saying he was confined to his apartment for months, with authories calling twice a day to deliver essential and take his tempature. Christ people here whinge about wearing a mask in aldi.
@Rayzor: they may have took extreme measures, but do you deny the points I made? They still tried to hide it, they still persecuted the doctor that noticed it and they still imprisoned the journalist!
@Merlin Lancelot: different cultures, in Asia live matters, wearing masks is not problem, S Korea, japan China, Vietnam (can’t be sure)… many people has hay fever, but it’s big problem for westerners, just different thinking about the masks. Different strategy, they choose not “living with covid”, they have dealing with sars experiences, strict lockdown, most people followed rule…
There is no comparison between Ireland and china, they can use entire country resources for 1 city, equipment, medical personnel… Ireland doesn’t have that much
It is either a pandemic or it isn’t a pandemic! Dropping restrictions for Christmas has come back to bite the government in the backside. Weak decision making, weak leadership.
@Tom Kelly: Absolutely no backbone.
At the start of the pandemic, I genuinely believed they were doing the right thing but the last 2 to 3 months is a total and utter shambles, Government has no backbone and is a total and utter joke at this point.
The way the virus spreads is through community spread and person to person, so implement measures to properly to stop that.
Total lockdown for 3 weeks, only allow people enter the country who have a negative test within 2 days of travel and can show they are travelling for essential reasons. Align with the Northern Assembly, publicly.
Use the 3 weeks to sort the Vaccine supply chain and roll out, go all in on it and use the Irish Army to manage the supply chain as that’s their specialty (that’s what other first world countries are doing)
R.I.P to every family all over the world who has lost someone this year. Hopefull the new year will bring progress and help for everybody. Whatever happens try and have a happy new year
@Eoin Ó Cuinneagáin: RIP. Absolutely dreadful for the families. I see we have another inconsiderate me feiner knocking about, “Yawn”…What a guy! No empathy at all to those that have passed. Well done you!
@D Mems: and the ones who died from cancer, strokes, heart attacks etc, they must be worth a mention surely!!! Of course RIP to the Covid patients but nationally they are the minority.
@seanC: not IT systems , no testing on Xmas day or Stephens day in my area, unfortunately the virus doesn’t work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and take bank holidays off!
@Tony Humphreys: of course they are.. the fear is needed, can’t get too complacent now.. Wear your mask, wash your B@l!$, do as your told, stand on one leg, dance like a chicken..RTE rules.
It’s a total shambles now… leaving it rip from the 2nd of December until now is going be a costly mistake….. contact tracing is like two blind people playing hide and seek…..a waste of money is all it is now……. keep away from others as best we can is all we can do now until this wave is flattened completely !
The gas thing with this virus thar is so deadly I’ve not heard of someone I know who has died from or with Covid but know a good few who have died from suicide, cancer, heart disease and just old age.
If they had left pubs opened we would not have these high numbers but they never admit it. Loads more people going to house parties that would have be happy just staying in pub. Shame on you Government of Ireland, blood on your hands again. RIP to all who lost their lives
@Sean: I totally understand what you are saying but where I am parties have always went on due to pubs costing money, its cheaper for them to drink at home. . Taxi drivers were swamped bringing people from pubs straight to parties. Its up to people to do the right thing. And judging by tonight there’s not much of that
@Eddie Michael:
In the tune to RKelly I believe I can fly.. chorus
I believe I could die
I believe covid can get in your eye
I think about it every night and day
If you’ve no mask I’ll run away
The government lie more and more, and I believe cause I’m brainwashed to the coreeee
I Believe I could die
I believe in the vaccine lie
Without the jab I can’t flyyy
Their will have to be some sort of public inquiry into the complete failure of the HSA, an organisation not fit for purpose, an inquiry which will inevitably lead to why did FFG cover up the complete incompetence, laziness of the clowns in the HSA.
Awful, awful, awful. I can’t even find the words. Except RIP to the deceased and my comfort and healing be bestowed upon their heartbroken families and friends
@Albert Brennerman: |track and trace will not work unless people are totally honest about where they have been and with whom. They also have to answer a phone.
This seems to be to much trouble for a lot of people.
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