The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that a total of 8 people with COVID-19 have died.
It brings to 1,703, the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
The HPSC has been notified of 8 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 1 case being denotified, bringing the country’s total to 25,238.
There has been one new case confirmed here in Clare, bringing the total to 369.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said; “The reproductive number has remained stable, between 0.4 – 0.8 over a number of weeks. The next two weeks are now critical in limiting transmission, keeping the r-number low and suppressing the virus. It is how we interact, as we go about our daily lives more freely, that will determine whether the r-number increases.”
