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Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Coronavirus: 12 deaths and 76 new confirmed cases in Ireland

The Department of Health provided the last figures at tonight’s briefing.

A FURTHER 12 people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland, the Department of Health confirmed this evening.

In a statement, it said that a further 76 cases of coronavirus have also been confirmed here, bringing the total number of cases to 24,391.

The death toll from Covid-19 in Ireland is 1,583.

It is now approaching a full week where the daily confirmed cases of coronavirus have been below 100. 

Ireland entered Phase One of re-opening its economy on Monday, and it won’t be known what effect that has had on the number of confirmed cases until late next week at the earliest. 

Leading this evening’s press briefing, deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn said that there had been no more additional deaths in healthcare workers in the past week. So far, seven healthcare workers have died after being confirmed for Covid-19 in Ireland. 

Dr Glynn said: “We have experienced six consecutive days of under 100 new confirmed cases in Ireland. This is very positive and demonstrates the extent to which the public’s actions have limited the spread of this disease.”

Professor Philip Nolan, who chairs NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, told tonight’s briefing that all major indicators of the disease are “declining or stable”. 

He said the average number of new cases had decreased by 100 in the space of a week. 

“The number of hospital admissions a day remains low and stable,” he said. “The number of confirmed cases on intensive car is 52 on average.

The number of deaths confirmed each day – not including probable of suspected Covid – is further falling at an average of nine a day. 

Nolan said it was important to emphasise that these falling numbers had come amid the increased capacity for testing.

He said health authorities are positive they are testing the vast majority of symptomatic cases. 

Reiterating comments from Minister Harris earlier, he said the virus’ reproduction rate is between 0.45 and 0.63. 

“That number relates to events that happened 10-14 days ago,” he said. “If someone was symptomatic three or four days ago, we’re seeing their test now. And they probably picked it up a week before that.”

He said it’ll take a week or two to gauge the impact on reproduction rate given that restrictions had begun to lift this week. 

With reporting from Dominic McGrath at the Department of Health

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    Mute Chris Marsh
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    May 21st 2020, 5:50 PM

    Open up the country

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    May 21st 2020, 5:55 PM

    @Chris Marsh: You must love your near 6pm copy and paste every day. Maybe you do need to get out.

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    May 21st 2020, 5:56 PM

    @Chris Marsh: The country’s open dude, just to varying degrees which were adjusting as we go along due this virus that’s going around killing people. You should look in to a thing called “nuance”. You’ll sound a lot less dumb.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:10 PM

    @Chris Marsh: top class argument. Full of intelligence a personal attack to defend your point.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:12 PM

    @Chris Marsh: give us the logic behind your request.go on enlighten us.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:16 PM

    @Mark Brown: he’s right though. Maybe not fully but the phases need to be seriously reviewed and accelerated!

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    May 21st 2020, 6:20 PM

    @Chris Marsh: OpEn Up ThE CoUntrY

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    May 21st 2020, 6:35 PM

    @Kem Trayle: I don’t think Chris will understand what you have said in your post, we might have to put it in similar terms for him. Lol

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    May 21st 2020, 6:54 PM

    @Stan Kowalskis: Its not rocket science, see we have to borrow this thing called money. Now because we have already maxed out our credit borrowing more is not ideal. Now because so many people are not working there is less tax and more people on the dole, that makes us borrow even more money. Now the longer we leave people without work the more we have to borrow…….and guess what happens in the end?, well go ask the Greeks and they will explain better than I could……see it really is not rocket science now is it?

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    May 21st 2020, 7:06 PM

    @Peter Hughes: economy doesn’t exist. It’s a construct. It can be smashed and rebuilt any way we like. Only the rich stand in the way.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:15 PM

    @The Shape: I’ll have some of whatever you are smoking pal.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:26 PM

    @Peter Hughes: A fine argument, but I’m not sure the virus got much training in Economics before leaving China.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:29 PM

    @Kem Trayle: it’s contained enough that we can speed up the reopening. Better than sacrificing our children’s future

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    May 21st 2020, 8:20 PM

    @Chris Marsh: i dont mind getting it ..but i do mind infecting others… dont be so selfish… we need to all wear masks and wash hands regularly… we need to open slowely,

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    May 21st 2020, 8:48 PM

    @Kem Trayle: Are you trying to exploit the dead to ignore any other consideration?

    I understand that a mantra is making it easier to deal with a lockdown. It helps to ignore people with mental health issues, new homeless and unemployed and so on.

    But show at least some empathy…

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    May 21st 2020, 9:10 PM

    @EvieXVI: Thats interesting ‘better than sacrificing our children’ a future’ (1) send them back to school where they might be exposed to the virus with unknown future consequences for themselves or others) 2) keep them at home where they will be safe(r). I don’t think missing a few weeks of school is not going to have detrimental effects on their lives. Besides look at the benefit of value family time

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    May 21st 2020, 9:13 PM

    @John Byrne: *is going to have

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    May 21st 2020, 9:21 PM

    @John Byrne: Children have been home for 3 months already. Many, like mine, have parents who work full time and can’t spend their days enjoying quality family time.
    At least my children are old enough not to need constant care. But I have a teenager whose exams have been cancelled, facing a summer of uncertainty with no hope of a job, a holiday, and no idea where she’ll be next autumn. I know college students who have graduated with all hopes of a job now gone.
    I have a house, a job, and security. I’m not worried about me. How many of our young people are looking at years and years of recession knowing that they may never have these things? Covid19 is unlikely to harm them but an economic depression will.

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    May 21st 2020, 9:50 PM

    @8-Bit-Relic: Please do tell me how the roller-coaster thought process in your head brought you from “viruses don’t know about economics” to me “exploiting the dead”. Or was your comment directed at the virus itself?

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    May 21st 2020, 9:51 PM

    @Peter Hughes: David McWilliams disagrees with you. There is a simple economic manovre where we can spend all this money and not have to pay it back completely.

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    May 21st 2020, 5:50 PM

    RIP to those who’ve died and condolences to their families. Let’s keep the trend of reducing the new cases.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:05 PM

    @James Doherty: This is the end of that process. The country is now opening up and these numbers will likely start to increase again. Sad to see that the lowest we could force it down to is 12 a day. The total number of deaths from the virus in New Zealand (Population: 5 million) is 21.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:10 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: good on ya Sylvia. But your just one of the negative collective on here.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:17 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: Apples and Oranges

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    May 21st 2020, 6:38 PM

    @Anthony Burke: Island nation’s both!

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    May 21st 2020, 6:42 PM

    @Daniel Kelly: New Zealand is pretty isolated compared to us.
    And we share a land border with the UK and we all know how they’re doing.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:44 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: Twas 4 on Saturday, glummy.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:50 PM

    @Daniel Kelly: Both also had thousands skiing in Italy, holidaying in Spain during the school mid term ..
    Nostradamus nonsense..

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    May 21st 2020, 6:51 PM

    @Daniel Kelly: And that’s where comparisons end, we receive triple the number of tourists per year than New Zealand, more business travel and interconnected right beside Europe and strong links to North America. New Zealand is fairly isolated in the Pacific.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:40 PM

    @Éamann Ó Duinn: I accept that the geo differences are the reason for the differences in outcome. But it is such a drastic difference. It’s just sad that we couldn’t have taken action a little earlier. It may have saved many lives.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:45 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: New Zealand has the same population as Ireland but is 4 times bigger and is 1000′s of miles from any epicentre, an Island on its own where as we are country within Europe, they cannot be compared

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    May 22nd 2020, 10:34 AM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: 25 a day die from cancer.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:27 PM

    They really have the testing and results working extremely well.I rang my GP on Tuesday at 13.53 complaining of a cough.I got a text at 15.49 to go for a test yesterday at the Aviva at 10.30 which is staffed by the army who are brilliant I got another text from the HSE at 16.07 today with my result Negative thankfully a two day turnaround from seeking the test to getting the result is excellent they really have it sussed.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:09 PM

    @patrick o keeffe: now that is good news. Up to date testing is the only way to beat this. Well done

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    May 22nd 2020, 8:45 AM

    @Macca Attack: one day turnaround would be better, but it’s an improvement

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    May 21st 2020, 5:49 PM

    Close everything

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    May 21st 2020, 5:50 PM

    @Tom: agreed

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    May 21st 2020, 5:56 PM

    @Tom: hows the UK these days?

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    May 21st 2020, 6:48 PM

    @Tom: make up your mind you melt

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    May 21st 2020, 6:49 PM

    @Paul Ò Brù: that’s was ment for Chris Marsh

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    May 21st 2020, 5:57 PM

    May they rest in peace and condolences to their families.

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    May 21st 2020, 5:52 PM

    76 new cases it’s up again but we can still beat this.Sad for the 12 deaths and their family’s but we have to stay strong.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:07 PM

    @paul mc donough: Its going to fluctuate here and there. No real cause for concern. Be very interested to see the numbers come next weekend. Hoping we don’t have a substantial rise after the easing of lockdown. If we can keep it to double figures I think we’ll be well on the way to beating it.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:11 PM

    @paul mc donough: they were nine or ten days ago right?

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    May 21st 2020, 6:16 PM

    @John Travers: Beating what? I thought the goal was to flatten the curve

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    May 21st 2020, 7:06 PM

    @8-Bit-Relic: a LOT of the numbers recently were from the terribly managed Meat Plants, I think there was nearly 900 positive infections during the past few weeks, so with them now completed, I’d say we’ll see further drops soon.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:55 PM

    @paul mc donough: How are you going to beat it ? study today says we have about~ 2 % immunity in the population. Guess what will happen when you open back up to an airborne virus with an R0 of ~5.8 and 60% asymptomatic spread.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:51 PM

    @Daithi O’Hakaman: What is the goal now? Somehow the mantra seems to have shifted to some weird game where we try to look how low we get the curve no matter who or what we leave behind.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:44 PM

    I have to say on the whole, I’m proud of the collective effort we as a people put in to taking this virus seriously and massively reduced the infection rates. With the exception of a small minority, we should be proud of ourselves. It hasn’t been easy.

    Kudos to all the frontline staff who had to work through this. Hospital staff, grocery workers, etc.

    Sincere thoughts with the families who have lost someone.

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    May 21st 2020, 5:49 PM

    To coin Star Wars, stay on target! Stay on target! Well done everyone.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:20 PM

    We have been sold an absolute pup

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    May 21st 2020, 6:27 PM

    @evalina montina: do you not believe there is a virus?

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    May 21st 2020, 7:20 PM

    @evalina montina: Have a look at the footage of the body bags in Italy, and think what could have been.

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    May 21st 2020, 9:46 PM

    @evalina montina: go visit a hospital with Covid patients or speak with family who have lost a loved one. That pup could just bite you

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    May 21st 2020, 5:54 PM

    Is Holohan on holidays?

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    May 21st 2020, 6:00 PM

    @Lets be real: he deserves one anywau

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    May 21st 2020, 6:01 PM

    @Lets be real: He needs a day off now and again FFS!

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    May 21st 2020, 6:48 PM

    @Lets be real: RIP once again. Dreadful. The “Tony” infatuation is bizarre here. He’s allowed a few days off no? Someone is standing in for him too… Same people here every day trying to make a big deal over nothing. People have died yet it still amazes me how people can’t even show shred of compassion anymore and are more concerned more about a missing CMO.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:32 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: Well said. This is article reporting on those who died yesterday and we have people commenting on the economy. Shameful.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:47 PM

    Nobody wearing face covering is gonna be our biggest problem. Need to make it mandatory so we can all try get back to semi normal. We need to learn from the most successful countries. I just don’t understand why they are yet again slow to act.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:09 PM

    @Diarmuid Hehir: What about gloves and should we wear condoms as well when we are outside?

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    May 21st 2020, 7:22 PM

    @Diarmuid Hehir: Completely agree. And just anecdotally when I shopped today there were far fewer people wearing masks than last week – complacency is setting in.

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    May 21st 2020, 7:34 PM

    @Mairead Jenkins: people are only advised to wear masks. Maybe you met different people than you normally meet. I personally haven’t used gloves nor mask when I be out shopping during this.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:53 PM

    @Christopher Mulrooney #WeAreStarfleet: drink some bleach clown.

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    May 21st 2020, 9:29 PM

    @Diarmuid Hehir: who is slow to act? Government has recommended wearing face masks on public transport and when shopping. It is up to each of us to decide for ourselves. We have free will. The footage on RTÉ news tonight is not very encouraging with no social distance being observed. Wearing masks alone is not going to keep Covid 19 we need to comply with recommendations. Another lock down would be very hard to accept or enforce

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    May 21st 2020, 6:36 PM

    Professor Sunetra Gupta is a lady we should all be listening to.

    I completely agree with her – there is more immunity in the population than estimated.

    She thinks the epidemic is ‘on its way out’ and the fatality rate is ‘less than 1 in 1000 and probably closer to 1 in 10,000.’

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    May 21st 2020, 6:47 PM

    @Mr Wilde: Stockholm tested and found that 7.4% of people had antibodies. They were expecting it to be higher. Of course some people might have been infected and not developed antibodies and some percentage might be immune or have a high degree of resistance to contracting it.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:58 PM

    @Mr Wilde: most are professors are saying there is no proof immunity guaranteed. Nobody is 100% sure what we have and haven’t.

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    May 21st 2020, 11:18 PM

    @barry moore: most are saying there is likely immunity but they don’t know for how long. Please try and be accurate with your comments as some people believe everything they read in places like this.

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    May 21st 2020, 6:05 PM

    No tony again today. hope he’s alright.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:27 PM

    It would be nice to see a day by day breakdown of where the new cases are, as in which counties. I could probably bet that most rural areas and counties have little to no new cases and are getting towards zero active cases with those who were affected recovering or sadly passing. If the trend is anything to go by the majority of the new cases are in the cities and larger urban areas. Why aren’t we being shown those statistics instead of just the new daily number. Surely these numbers are pertinent and readily available. Surely the testers must ask where the person being tested has come from.

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    May 21st 2020, 8:43 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: They’re treating us all like children and we’re all lapping it up like good little kids. This is insanity..

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    May 21st 2020, 11:12 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: wouldn’t suit them to tell us useful information. All we get is information that is carefully weighed to keep us compliant. We locked down to stop the health system getting overrun, but they have done next to nothing to increase the capacity in the meantime. They say less than 5% have been exposed in ireland so far so we have basically stopped living for three months and are in the same position now as we were when the virus first surfaced. Where is the strategy to get us out of this mess? Let the young people not living with at risk people start mixing and building up immunity, only 12% of deaths in italy were in people with no underlying conditions. Isolate those with underlying conditions and let the rest of the country get on with life. Take the covid payments off everyone and offer a separate one based on a percentage of your income in the first two months of the year up to 350 per week and support those that can’t work due to being in an at risk demographic.

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    May 21st 2020, 11:31 PM

    @Dino: I agree Dangerous running the country purely on medical advice unless it considers the long term too. Re lack of useful information they have stopped publishing median age of deaths which had always been above our average life expectancy. Now they report median age of cases which means nothing as a case could be anything from temporary loss of taste to the low % requiring intensive care. Many confuse cases and fatalities and are in fear of their lives whereas it is only vulnerable people who are at risk of death. Protect the vulnerable, free the rest!

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    May 21st 2020, 11:34 PM

    @Dino: I agree Dangerous running the country purely on medical advice unless it considers the long term too. Re lack of useful info they stopped publishing median age of deaths which had been above our average life expectancy. Now they report median age of cases which means nothing: a case could be anything from temporary loss of taste to the few requiring ICU. Many confuse cases & fatalities and are in fear of their lives. It is only vulnerable people who are at risk of death. Protect the vulnerable, free the rest!

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    Mute Sean Dermody
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    May 21st 2020, 6:55 PM

    Interesting that it’s not headlines in any of the news outlets the last few days!

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    May 21st 2020, 6:26 PM

    Where are all the consistent tens of new cases everyday coming from really..???

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    Mute John Byrne
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    May 21st 2020, 9:49 PM

    @Seriousnojoke: because Covid has not gone away

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    Mute EnKy
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    May 22nd 2020, 8:20 AM

    @John Byrne: It has gone away in the community, which I think is what the original poster was trying to ascertain.

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    Mute dowthebow
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    May 22nd 2020, 8:49 AM

    @EnKy: when they say it has gone away in the community, they mean community transmission (from an unknown source) is very low

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    Mute Bernard Sweeney
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    May 21st 2020, 8:43 PM

    Any chance the journal (probably not) could report this properly. A further 12 people have died WITH COVID19, not from.

    Ironic seeing as they posted an explainer earlier that states just that.

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    Mute 8-Bit-Relic
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    May 21st 2020, 6:13 PM

    Hasn’t Dr Holohan said that he would be off for sn evening but back today?

    Ah well, I could have misunderstood him again.

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    Mute Sean Dermody
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    May 21st 2020, 8:44 PM

    10th on the list of headlines. I’m beginning to smell a rat!

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    Mute thegreatdefector
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    May 22nd 2020, 12:55 AM

    Less than 1800 active cases left in Ireland now according to Glynn tonight as the rest are virus free. Surely we can lob them all into the facility in citywest and release them as they recover. Let the rest of us actually get on with our lives.

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    Mute flamrock
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    May 22nd 2020, 1:31 AM

    The day there is no cases.im going out for a big ,beautiful.creamy head cold pint of Murphy’s, not that other slop, just Murphy’s,

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    Mute flamrock
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    May 22nd 2020, 1:36 AM

    Then I’m moving to inis boffin, no phone.no radio.no TV. No wife no kids .I’ll bring the dog . And a large bag of peanuts, a fishing rod with white flies so I can have fresh pollick every night.

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    Mute Jerry Siakasiya
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    May 21st 2020, 9:34 PM

    “From Covid” or “with Covid” or “suspected case”. Lookup WHO ICD codes being used.

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