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HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE confirmed a further 188 cases of coronavirus in Ireland, with no new deaths reported.
In a statement this evening, the Department of Health said that there have now been a total of 33,121 confirmed cases in this country, and 1,792 Covid-19 related deaths.
A total of 76 cases were recorded in Dublin.
Dublin today entered its first full week of Level 3 restrictions after a local lockdown for the county was announced on Friday.
The county has seen a considerable increase in the number of people infected with Covid-19 in recent weeks.
Of the cases notified today;
Dr Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, said: “The spirit of the response to COVID-19 since the outset of this pandemic has been solidarity and cooperation. While this pandemic is a uniquely challenging time for everyone, we can and will support one another in getting through this.
“Encourage your family and friends to heed the public health advice. Now more than ever, we need to work collectively. Our individual actions count on a population level.
“Every one of us doing our bit in our daily lives – halving our social contacts, working from home, keeping our distance, wearing a face covering, washing our hands – matters a great deal. These small, positive steps taken together amount to our best and strongest defence against the virus.”
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- 16 confirmed cases in ICU
- 1 discharge from ICU in the last 24hrs
- 0 admissions to ICU in the last 24hrs
- 90 confirmed cases in hospital
- 1 discharge from hospital in the last 24hrs
- 3 admissions to hospital in the last 24hrs
- positivity rate is 2.3% for the last 7 days, 86079 tests carried out .
Covid Data hub stats updated today
https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu–testing
@Anna Anna: Thise in ICU is that just covid or is it related?
@Anna Anna: The ones in ICU is that just covid or is it related?
@Anna Anna: didn’t we are one point only have 7 in hospital? Up to 90 now and growing.
@John John: the 16 are confirmed covid-19 cases in ICU with 7 ventilated. There are another 4 in ICU who are awaiting test results (but these usually turn out negative) and treated as “suspect covid-19″ until a negative test returns.
There are 280 Critical Care beds staffed and open across the hospitals of which 230 (inc the covid-19 cases) are occupied and 6 reserved meaning that across Ireland there are 44 critical care beds available
There are 30 critical care children’s beds of which 22 are occupied.
The full stats for yesterday are here…They show the hospitals with critical care beds available.. and lots more stats – just when looking there are “Suspected Cases” – but this is not actually a clinical diagnosis but rather just that they are awaiting test result and almost all will be negaitve but thay have to be treated as suspect until they get a negative test and therefore use resources that would not otherwise be used so this is an operational figure and almost all turn out negative.
Here is Sunday nghts report:
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid-19-daily-operations-update-2000-20-september-2020.pdf
Other reports can be viewed from here:
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/coronavirus-daily-operations-updates.html
@Anna Anna: nos in hos going up
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Yikes only 44 ICU beds. nicht gut
@Anna Anna:
Hi Anna, is the figure for the number of tests a rolling 7 day figure or a14 day figure.
I can’t get into the link to check for myself.
@Garry Coll: rolling 7 day figure. It’s on the Covid Data Hub
@Anna Anna: Do we know what happened in the hospitals last year? They were badly over run from about November on but it was an extremely low year for Flu deaths. What went on there. And is there any chance it was Covid? Or was there another virus knocking about?
@Monster Munch: it might have been in Europe from Oct. One of my brothers went to dr thinking it had flu, he had got the flu vac, but his dr told him it was not the flu but a virus so didnt give him antibiotics. He was sent for a CT afterwards and he had scarring on his lungs. Took him a long time recover. So maybe it was Covid
@Monster Munch: the health service is a disaster. I lost somebody in December who was very ill all year and had to go to A&E several times and was left sitting for hours waiting for a bed. The staff were run off their feet. I. hate to think what would happen if things get much worse here and lots of people have to be hospitalised
@Monster Munch: Yeah, there’s been many reports that it came to Europe last October after the athletes returned from the Wuhan Military Games. A lot of athletes became ill over there
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3932712
@Mary Oliver: it’s an absolute disgrace that we’ve had 8 months, spent billions on welfare payments and still have worst ICU capacity in Europe. It’s a complete dereliction of duty. We should have at least doubled our capacity by this point.
@Anna Anna: ~” Yeah, there’s been many reports that it came to Europe last October ”
There is no evidence that it arrived in Europe in October, the earliest scientifically proven case was in a man who went to hospital in France on 27th December with COVID-19 symptoms, he was the husband of a shop worker who worked next to Charles De Gaulle airport and often met Chinese passengers.
French scientists reviewed the medical record of patients and stored biomedical specimens (that they tested again using RT-PCR) to find their earliest previously undiagnosed cases. There is no doubt the virus arrived Europe in December.
We know that the virus was first diagnosed in China in early December.
The false claim that it was in Europe in October (or earlier) is used by:
1. China to claim the virus came from Europe so they are not to blame.
2. By Sceptics who claim it was infecting people harmlessly for months, so the fatality rate of the virus is far lower than official figures claim.
Ref.:
Deslandes, A., Berti, V., Tandjaoui-Lambotte, Y., Alloui, C., Carbonnelle, E., Zahar, J.R., Brichler, S. and Cohen, Y., 2020. SARS-COV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, p.106006.
@David Jordan: David the European athletes reported falling ill in Wuhan at the Military Games so that can hardly be something used by China to claim it originated in Europe. The athletes travelled back to their home country and it started to spread. If anything it highlights how they China tried to cover it up before the Chinese whistleblower scientists started to speak out.
The first confirmed case in Europe was the French man who was treated in hospital in France on 27th Dec. They originally suspected he had pneumonia before it was confirmed as Covid. This man had not been travelling outside the country. Even in the articles that report the confirmed case on the 27th of December they talk of the virus being in France for at least a month before the first patient was confirmed.
@Anna Anna: you have misread the BBC article. When it refers to the virus being in France for at least month before the first patient was confirmed, they mean that they had thought the first case in France was late Jaanuary, until they discovered the December case
@Lesidees: it makes no difference to me where the virus originated but the reports from the European athletes who attended the Wuhan Military Games in October still stand. The 27th Dec case was the first confirmed in Europe. It came up on the thread because someone asked about another potential virus circulating last year
@Monster Munch: According to Covid-19 Committee Meeting Tuesday 2nd June,under section :Grow critical care surge capacity:’We provided for a maximum surge of up to 800 critical care patients from the base capacity of 250 critical care beds.This was heavily dependent upon re-assigning existing staff and up-skilling them to support critical care teams.Over 1,600 staff were trained to do this’.
I don’t know what happened that capacity though as Coronavirus daily operations updates mention only 280Total adult opened and staffed(230 of those occupied) Critical Care Beds and just 30 Total Paeds Critical Care Beds(22 of those occupied).
Governments were warned since 2008 that 500 ICU beds needed by 2020.
IT had an article in April this year:’Government risk reports warned of major pandemic since 2014′!
The key,though,in the fight to contain the coronavirus during this pandemic is NOT the HSE or Government,it is us the public.So we must play our part,our major part for the sake of our families and communities.The steps are so simple,even young children understand&
I 100% support the public health advice and guidelines.If we flatten the curve of transmission , schools and workplaces can remain open,our health system won’t be overwhelmed and more and more procedures and hospital appointments can go ahead,etc.I completely understand why people are frustrated and weary of local lockdowns but we,the public,can change this by following the public health advice and guidelines.
The Government must play it’s part by supporting businesses, workplaces, workers,renters, mortgage holders,etc.
@Nuala Mc Namara: Partly agree but the key should not be people. Hospitals are there to protect people not the other way around. Give them the resources and crack on. Not completely but the status quo is not sustainable til even Christmas. And is causing more problems than it’s solving at minute. Whatever happened to the thousands the answered the call to ‘don the green jersey’? Were any employed in the end? Patriotism really is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
@Monster Munch: Hospitals and Government can’t stop the transmission of the virus,we are the key to that!
People are hospitalised with the virus and hospitals treat the symptoms the best they can.
Government can put emergency measures based on public health guidelines in place to deal with consequences of this pandemic but that won’t reduce transmission of the virus if people ignoring guidelines.
NPHET experts advise Government on the daily Covid 19 statistics,how to deal with different scenarios, prediction analysis by Dr Philip Nolan,etc and Government make decisions on what to implement,they don’t always follow all advice given to them.NPHET aren’t the enemy,the virus is.
I understand your frustration.Ive criticized Government in the past re the previous ongoing National emergencies in health and housing.We can see this pandemic has revealed Governments past failings especially in health and housing.Last September the Irish Hospital Consultants body said there were 1.1M people on combined hospital waiting lists, hospital overcrowding at dangerous levels with record numbers of patients on trolleys,etcThere was also a recruitment freeze re nursing staff. (Which was lifted because of pandemic)Housing and homelessness with rents higher than the Celtic Tiger boom years, problems with tenants, families getting notices of termination from landlords and experiencing homelessness (many families stayed with friends or families in overcrowding conditions before presenting to homeless services,renters in overcrowding conditions,etcAll these challenges became even more highlighted by this pandemic.
So you can see I do criticize Government policies in those areas
However I 100% support the public health advice and guidelines because it’s about protecting ourselves,our families,our communities,our services and our economy.
Just wish people would follow advice. It’s not that hard folks!
@Seán O Ciara: i wish people would abide by the constitution
@Tom Jones: Please highlight where the constitution has been breached?
@Tom Jones: it’s not unusual
@Ian Breathnach: Ha, as if he read it or indeed understands it good one.
@Tom Jones: Doesn’t the Constitution have exemptions re fundamental rights ‘for the common good’?
Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me! I will show you where I have made my home while preparing to bring justice.
@Stephen Gaffney: that’s fab stevie
@Stephen Gaffney: Ah, ffleck off!
@Declan McArdle: Sound Deco
@Stephen Gaffney: your the bane of my life!!
@Stephen Gaffney: no more drugs for this man
@Peter Roche: Did you just assume my bender?
@Stephen Gaffney: bender is right!!
@Stephen Gaffney: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
@Stephen Gaffney: Wanna know how I got these scars???……..My father was a drinker….and a fiend….. So one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself….He doesn’t like that. Not….one….bit…..So,… me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He looks at me…. and he says “Why so serious?!”….He comes at me with the knife……”Why so serious?!!”…”Let’s put a smile on that face!!”……And……(looks at other gangster) Why so serious?
@Football in the Groin: There goes tomorrow’s quote. Thanks Mr Football. Back to the drawing board for me
@Football in the Groin: Stop Joking around…
@Stephen Gaffney: is that you Leo?
@Paul Cahill: No. I would have dodged the smoothie been thrown at me.
@Football in the Groin: You like Huey Lewis and the News?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
@J: Careful now. I got reported for that exact comment the other day.
@J: Let’s see what Paul Allen thinks…
@Declan McArdle: State of his business card
All the Dubs are shattered after all their raving and partying over the weekend
@Ian Flynn: it was unreal man! You missed it.. will keep you posted on next one!
@Ian Flynn: The 76 Dubliners who tested positive were tested last week at the earliest.
Open the Brothels
@Pat Mc Cormack: Already open, or so I’ve been led to believe…
@Pat Mc Cormack: sure they’re all down in Kerry. Full of cute hoors there.
The deaths, ICU and admissions are the numbers we should be concerned about, and they have been consistently low for few months, thankfully…more up to speed testing will obviously reveal more asymptotic cases, I would seriously say that half the country has it (myself and family possibly as three out of four work in three different hospitals and have done all along) and are totally unaware.
@Joan Featherstone: According to the summary of all Covid-19 deaths,42.69% were hospitalised.Of those hospitalised 5.41% died in ICU and 37 28% weren’t admitted to ICU.
Numbers are always low on a sunny Monday.
@Jonathan Regan: low in Dublin but same outside Dublin
Do you remember, the 21st night of September?
@Nicole: Brilliant!
Open the casinos
@Lets be real: Atari casino and plaza casino in Tallaght open,
@Lets be real: the casinos knew that it was not illegal to open so they did straight after lockdown ended. And they were right in doing so.
The date is 21st September 2031,there hasn’t been a single case of Covid-19 in over 2 years since Ireland finally adopted herd immunity, Ireland was one of the last countries in Europe to follow suit leading to widespread protests and rioting over the course of a few months before the government finally caved in, Ronan Glynn, Professor Philip Nolan and Cillian De Gascun were released from jail after serving half their sentence and promptly fled the country, Michael Martin, Leo Varadkar, Simon Donnelly and a host of other government ministers remain at large having fled the country after being ousted in a coup in 2029, there whereabouts is unknown, but warrants for their arrest remain and its thought they will finally be brought to justice, Ireland is now a better country.
@SB: Aren’t fairytales great!?
@Trevor Branigan: I wouldn’t know Trevor!!
@SB: keep telling yourself that SB…..is it the bedtime story you tell yourself every night before bed?
@Joe_X: I bet you say the rosary every night hoping the virgin mary will stop the coronavirus lol
@SB: Haha
@SB: you forgot to pay tribute to our new leader Jackie Healy Rae Junior
@SB: Whatever you want to believe in your world of make-believe
@Oscar Wilde: even id leave the country for good if any of the Kerry mafia ever became Taoiseach lol
@Joe_X: there’s a good lad don’t forget your hail Mary’s tonight
@SB: Gibberish its not even at a basic level of writing. Don’t give up the ………..whatever fills you day, I doubt its a job and certainly isn’t educational
@SB: Fiction seems to be your talent!
They repeat the same lines day in and day out. Getting a bit boring now this scaremongering scamdemic
@John John: Good man, John. Let it all out. That’s a good lad. Late night?
@John John: How is reporting the facts scaremongering?
@John John: they’re facts. If facts are so scary then don’t read the articles.
We can’t all stick our heads in the sand and ignore what’s going on.
I’m off out for a few pints in couple of wet pubs
@Mattress Dick: Lightweight. I would have been there at opening.
@Stephen Gaffney: why weren’t you?
@Stephen Gaffney: You don’t drink!!
@Mattress Dick: I’ll be heading to Cork the weekend. I’m a riddled Dublin man.
@Olivia Smith: Do you want to watch the chase with me?
@Stephen Gaffney: I’m watching it as we type.
@Olivia Smith: Bradley looks well for his age
@Stephen Gaffney: He does, do you?
@Olivia Smith: Are you asking me out? I’ll meet you at the clock at Cleary’s. I’ll be wearing a mask.
@Stephen Gaffney: God no, Iv to limit my contacts mask or not. You might pull in Galway.
@Olivia Smith: You broke my heart Olivia. We could have made Journal history here.
@Stephen Gaffney: When the pandemic is over we can try again :D
@Olivia Smith: I’ll get working on a vaccine ASAP
@Stephen Gaffney: If you can get 1 sorted I’ll nominate you for a noble peace prize. Saving the world and my love life xxx ;)
There have been about 140 cases in schools since they opened, this is where the high numbers are coming from I reckon, not from pubs
@Mal Swan: yes indeed but they won’t admit this and instead blame the pubs
@Mal Swan: the schools have been open for about 3 weeks now and in that time there have been around 4300 new cases in the country. If your figure of 140 is right, it means that just 3.2% of new cases have been in the schools.
@Padraig O’Sullivan: these are over 140 cases in schools both children and staff which then infect households which in turn infect other close contacts so you can start multiplying that figure easily. With Dublin having a huge amount of schools I wonder is this the reason why such a spike in Dublin?
@Padraig O’Sullivan: 4000 cases in August, 6000+ in first three weeks of September.
Same across europe.
But it’s the wet pubs and Dubs!!!
Worst thing is, people are jumping on board en masse with their propaganda.
@Mal Swan: or maybe the kids caught it at home rather than in the school???
Random comment
Sitting here with the lads having a nice cold pint, no food in sight, had my dinner in the house! Life is good!! Open the night clubs!
Thats good, after the spike yesterday I was fearing big numbers for this week.
ICU still relatively low numbers
@Bain triail aisti: wait until tomorrow. Tuesday normally the highest of the last few weeks. Hopefully it will break the trend..
@Joe_X: Hopefully, but happy to see it below 300 today, never mind below 200. No deaths, no increase in ICU.
@Bain triail aisti: Thankfully. At this stage a day below 200 is a good thing.
@Joe_X: But what does that even mean? that more people are in the lab on a Tuesday? these are results from tests done days ago, from people infected possibly weeks ago.
@Pauline Gallagher: you are correct, but it is lab capacity is the reason, it means they catch up with a weekend backlog on a Monday, the results of which we get on a Tuesday. That is why Sunday and Monday reports used be low, because the swabs were tested in labs on Saturday and Sunday, but the labs would not be running at full capacity. Tuesdays then were higher for the reason I stated above. It is the only reason I can see for it.
13 in Galway,creeping up
@Lets be real:
Bit scary alright.. There seems to to be two cells one in south Connemara and the other around Tuam…
Seriously need to get on top of this… I say Dublin residents should be kept out of Galway for a few weeks. We should be asking for proof of Addresses to stay in a hotel or get into a bar..
@Cowboy Paddy: And please gives us the same respect. Don’t bother coming to Dublin ever again. Thanks.
@Cowboy Paddy: Would you like a DNA sample too? Get a grip ya dose.
@Cowboy Paddy: Galway has about the same number of new infections as Dublin per head of population. I’d say in your head Dublin is riddled while Galway has only a few isolated cases
@Olivia Smith: my pleasure
@tribesman: I’m going to screen grab this for proof. One less culchie closing up our city.
@Stephen Gaffney: Steve, go to bed. Big people talking and it is past your bedtime
@Joe_X: Joe you’re from Cork. Go scream at a bin or something.
@Olivia Smith: away with ya, enjoy.
@tribesman: Don’t talk to my bird like that ya backwards welly wearing spud gobbler.
@tribesman: Away with what? I don’t speak culchie.
@Stephen Gaffney: Ahh here, give me an hour to shave my legs and I’ll be under the clock. Mask and all :D Defending my honor
@Olivia Smith: I’ll be there. ME NERVES.
@Stephen Gaffney: I like potatoes and wear appropriate clothing for the appropriate country conditions, whats your point?
@Stephen Gaffney: Dont be nervous I’ll go gentle with you ;)
@Olivia Smith: Not too gentle.
@tribesman: Away with ya and your culchee attitude. Bogger be gone
@Cowboy Paddy: Dubs all in Wexford and other counties anyway
Level 3 for a few more counties if numbers keep going I’d say
It feels like only yesterday our little country bumpkin friends were rejoicing in the high numbers of cases in Dublin. Guess what’s coming down the road?
Crisis over .. 50% drop in cases
@Michael Waldron: Sure what were we worrying about anyway… Covid-19 officially packing it in and getting cancelled.
@Kiern Mcx: Covid has already proven to be discriminatory by targeting minorities more in the US, this bigoted virus definitely needs to be cancelled. However, the silence from Twitter regards this has been deafening
Put them on level 5
@bresy: If there was a Level 6 even better!!
@bresy: put you on level 6
@IRL77: He can only count to 5. Crayon eater.
Zero deaths and we are shutting up shop? Soft
I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain
All Island cases are 313 with 125 cases in the 6 north east counties.
I think an all Ireland case number should also be given when possible to give a better perspective for everyone on the Island of Ireland
@Supes Kz: ulster says no!
@Supes Kz: Do you miss Articles 2 & 3?
Wheres Anna Anna….
Which county has the lowest count
@HearMeNow33: Leitrim and Sligo.
@Mary Oliver: That’s because nobody lives there
Some of these comments are like clash of the counties. Anyone outside of Dublin are culchies or boggers. Cant we all just get along especially during this worrying time. We are all being affected by this. Not just the Dubs
@Christina Colling: I agree totally but unfortunately you had people who took pleasure when it was announced Dublin was to be locked down, and that provoked a reaction.
@SB: I wouldn’t like anywhere to be locked down. At some stage if the numbers dont go down further than everywhere will be on lockdown again. Everyone needs to get over themselves and stop the tit for tat..work together and we can get this virus under control and get back to some bit of normality if it will ever there will be normal in Ireland again. Keep to the rules and everyone stop thinking they are better than everyone else. This virus doesnt care whether you’re a dub or a culchie
@Christina Colling: agreed good post Christina
@Christina Colling: absolutely
Sure that’s grand we have this bet
@Jerry Mac: for sure lol
Dublin media incl RTE desperate for another county to be locked down to make themselves feel better.
Numbers coming down, well done everyone, keep up the good work!
Has anyone had a pint down the pub at all?
@Seagoat returns: I’m waiting for my Friday evening after work couple of pints, first time since March, however, I’m afraid that the pub might be shut again at midnight on Friday night, if the rest of the country goes to Level 3.
@Seagoat returns: yes be heading outside Dublin at the weekend for pints
@SB: let me guess, you’re driving as well. Ye b1eedin mad thing ye.
I was at a test centre in Dublin for a second test. It was so much quieter today.Hopefully it’s a good sign
@Lucy Legacy: It costs the tax payer 200 euro every time you do a test you know.
Hello economic devastation.
@Mark K: CITATION PLEASE
Coming down at this rate be gone by 2 months well done all wash yer hands
Cases are down, reopen the pubs.
Are there stats to say what the age breakdown is?, Would like to know ranges within 36% below 45.
@Peter Tutty: Sorry meant 71%
@Peter Tutty: no epidemiological report for today . Last one is for Friday and last 14 days.
0-4 – 121 cases
5-14 – 251
15 -24 – 592
25-34 – 501 cases
Open de pubes!
@Peter Brennan: Are they serving pints in Zihuatanejo?
Just wondering aren’t first communions off? Just wondering which parties costed my sleep this weekend.
Party on dude
Can someone please explain why our government, NPHET and Philip Nolan are not learning from the past six months of this deadly virus that the new wave is above 70% community transmission. Much of this is coming from people who are regulars on the social scene where there are absolutely no social distancing measures. I live in a small rural community and there are currently a number of active cases. All from the same cluster who are regulars on the social circuit. No point in telling people to limit social contact, wash hands, practice respiratory etiquette when no one is willing to take a stand and close all pubs, stop the sale of alcohol in off licenses and shops for at least 4 weeks. After all it is not an essential, rather a hazard in beating this virus
90 women + 96 men totals.188 according.to the headline. What gender are the other 2?
Don’t remember them naming counties back in April.
Quiet a few pubs in Waterford didn’t open today, including my local
Quiet a few pubs in Waterford didn’t open today, including my local
Quiet a few pubs in Waterford didn’t open today, including my local
Level 5 for Dublin- let them RAVE all they want about it!!
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