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THE CHIEF MEDICAL Officer has confirmed a further nine patients diagnosed with Covid-19 have died and there are 46 new cases of the disease in Ireland.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, there have been 24,841 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country and 1,639 people have died.
Discussions about the health service’s response to the outbreaks in nursing homes continued today.
Earlier, HSE CEO Paul Reid acknowledged there were “obvious gaps in clarity” around nursing homes, and that oversight of the private nursing home sector is something that needs to be looked at.
“Whatever the model is in the future, you’ve heard Hiqa express concerns in relation to it… from my perspective the HSE don’t have a direct relationship on a year to year basis, we provide support as required,” Reid said.
Speaking at a Department of Health briefing this evening, CMO Dr. Tony Holohan said that that the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has produced a paper which shows that Ireland’s mortality rate is low compared to other European countries.
“Throughout this pandemic NPHET has maintained a consistent focus on mortality, being very aware of the sad toll of lost loved ones on families. A mortality paper was prepared and discussed by NPHET today and identifies that mortality in Ireland has been within the lower range in overall terms compared with other health systems across Europe,” Holohan said.
Ireland will continue to report both confirmed and probable deaths from COVID-19 in all settings and direct public health measures to limit the burden of mortality.
Speaking at the same briefing, Professor Philip Nolan of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group said that Ireland’s effective reproduction number “is currently estimated to be 0.5″.
The effective reproduction number is the number of other people infected by one confirmed case.
- With reporting by Michelle Hennessy
Couriers not gonna like when he wants to stop for a sambo and the boss is tracking his every move.
Norris Cole would have loved this
Great idea, good luck to him
This app could come in handy for thieves to real time track a delivery van full of goods worth thousands of euros and intercept it.
Assuming that said thieves have placed an order and have a tracking number to track the van in real time in order to intercept it. Either that or they’ll have to have prior knowledge to someone placing an order and have access to that persons email to get the package tracking number. That would, of course, need us to assume that they are using the services of a hacker!
Now presumably, if there’s a hacker on board, they might go after slightly bigger fish than aunt Mary’ new hoover!
I also wouldn’t like to work for a company were they were tracing my every step, seems a bit a creepy.
Says the man who, from the profile picture, looks like he’s hiding in the bushes!
Too much grand theft auto aasif….?
Stop begrudging and just appreciate the fantastic start-up. Stop automatically looking at the negatives and what ‘could’ happen. They’ve obviously been looked into. Well done to all involved in Xpreso
The Irish are a nation of begrudgers. They hate to read about a success story. Moan, moan, moan.
In fairness this isn’t that big, have been to various interviews where MDs or senior management want to develop a auditing,tracking applications/tool. It’s not completely a new idea
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