15 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Clare this evening with 574 new cases confirmed nationwide.
Clare’s incidence rate of 159.1 per 100,000 people is the eighth lowest in the country.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 56 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
31 of these deaths occurred in February, 13 occurred in January, 3 in December or earlier, while a further 9 are under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 82 years and the age range was 16 – 97 years.
There has been a total of 4,237 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “We continue to see good progress, but this needs to be sustained. It is vital that we get our children back to school over the coming weeks. A key part of making this a success will be our continued collective buy-in to the public health measures that are tried and tested. Stay at home, work from home where possible.”
“Given the increased transmissibility of the virus now, we must continue to limit our social contacts and do all we can to starve this disease of opportunities to spread.”
