Clare is experiencing its highest levels of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Clare FM understands there were 29 cases reported to NPHET yesterday, as the trend of very high case numbers continues.
Last night, NPHET didn’t reveal a figure for Clare as part of their usual release.
However, Clare FM understands that 29 additional cases were confirmed here by health officials.
This is the second highest on record, topped only by one day in May when it is known that a number of cases, some of them weeks old, were re-classified.
Tonight’s release, reflecting yesterday’s data, will also be high, and public health officials have never reported such a high rate of COVID-19 here at any point in the pandemic.
In the past two weeks, 142 cases have been reported here, giving an incidence rate of 119.5 cases per 100,000 people.
That’s a 140% increase on this time last week, and only five counties are reporting a higher rate of confirmed cases of the virus.
Concern had been raised by the National Public Health Emergency Team in recent days about hospital capacity with the rise in Covid-19 cases.
There are 150 COVID patients in Irish hospitals, including 10 at University Hospital Limerick – a rise of 3 on yesterday’s figure.
The HSE says there were 23 people with the disease in Intensive Care Units across the country, two of those in Dooradoyle.
