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A FURTHER 270 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland, the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has said this evening.
In a statement, it said that a further 16 people confirmed to have Covid-19 have died, including 14 recorded this month.
The death toll from the coronavirus in Ireland is now 1,963, and the total number of confirmed cases is now at 65,889.
The latest figures come almost three weeks since the introduction of Level 5 restrictions.
Public health figures have said the lower numbers of new cases in recent weeks is to be welcomed, but have cautioned it’s too early to advise what form restrictions may take in December.
As of 2pm today, 282 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, including 40 in ICU.
The national 14-day incidence rate is now 151.5 per 100k population, and has halved since exceeding 300 per 100k last month.
The highest number of cases were recorded in Dublin, with 82 new cases.
There were 21 in Donegal, 18 in Roscommon, 17 in Limerick, 17 in Tipperary, 14 in Meath, 12 in Sligo and Kildare and 11 in Waterford. The remaining counties recorded less than 10 new cases.
In a statement, chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said: “The significant improvement in the profile of the disease is encouraging: the 14-day incidence of 152 cases per 100,000 is down by 51% compared to the previous two weeks.
“To maintain this positive trajectory, we need to remain vigilant to the highly infectious nature of this virus, which can easily spread from person to person through close contact and by social mixing. Our individual everyday choices to stay at home and keep our contacts to a minimum are vital to driving down the spread of Covid-19.”
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Just hold on a little longer folks. Be safe and be smart. RIP to those who died.
@JB: Cases need to be below 100, even 50. And more testing centres made available, better border policy up north, and some type of test and check at the airports. This lockdown has to amount to something, not just the usual small bandaid on a severed limb.
@JB: Feck it, we have held on this long, what’s another while. The year is wiped anyway! Roll on 2021
@Finn Faulkner: We have to hope science bails us out in the next few months. This government never had a plan or an end game.
@Tony Harris: it will be the same in 2021 this crap ain’t going to go away at the stroke of midnight on new years Eve, it’s not Cinderella
@gary mullen: he didn’t say January 1st did he….but with some experts suggesting things can return to some kind of normality as soon as the springtime, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that 2021 is going to be a huge improvement on 2020.
@Seàn Mc: pmsl it’s still going to be here long after 2021 …. You need to open your eyes and realize that.
@gary mullen: I didn’t realize I was in conversation here with someone who knows more than all the experts I’ve heard on the radio today, I am truly privileged
@Seàn Mc: and so you should be, consider yourself more privileged that I’m actually responding to you and take note as you might learn something. Those experts you speak off, well they ain’t got much right so far have they ? No that’s why we’re in the mess.
@Seàn Mc: I wouldn’t bother. Rat lickers can’t be reasoned with.
@gary mullen: I wouldn’t blame scientists for the awful year we’ve all endured at all but I am extremely thankful to the German scientists for this remarkable breakthrough. It seems likely the most vulnerable people will be able to avail of a vaccine next year so I’m very optimistic about 2021 right now but you continue to be miserable and a bit of a pr!ck too
@gary mullen: neither has Aids, Ebola, flu, measles, tb, polio but science and medicine has curtailed their potency.
@JusticeForJoe: you would not bother cause you have nothing productive to add or you can’t think for yourself? Which one is it?
@gary mullen: We arent in this mess because of experts, we are in this mess because of peoples refusal to limit their social contacts. I am optimistic about a vaccine. You stick to walking around with a cartoon rain cloud over your head.
@gary mullen: Nah, I wouldn’t bother cos I have a perfectly good wall right here to talk to
@gary mullen: I do? well the majority of people are optimistic so youre in the minority. You must feel very smug there thinking youre smarter than everyone else. I bet youre not, though.
@Seàn Mc: It’s also not clear yet how well the vaccine will work for the elderly, whose immune systems are generally weaker than those of younger adults and children. A preliminary study suggested that older adults respond to the vaccine, but not as strongly as young or middle-aged people do.
@gary mullen: can’t even spell! Turn off the modem love x
@gary mullen: What did they get so wrong? they seemed to predict fairly well what would happen, pity the politicians and economic leaders didn’t listen. So again, what did the experts get wrong?
@JB: science bailed us out ages ago. It’s silliness that’s keeping us there
@Emmett Whelan: wait the cohort of the study will surprise you.
- 40 confirmed cases in ICU
- 4 admissions to ICU in the last 24hrs
- 3 discharges in the last 24hrs
- 279 confirmed cases in hospital
- 18 admissions to hospital in the last 24hrs
- 35 discharges from hospital in the last 24hrs
- positivity rate is 3.7%, 78245 tests carried out in the last 7 days .
Covid data hub stats
https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu%2d%2dtesting
@Anna Anna: thanks Anna
@Gavin Courtney: Well done to NPHET, its clear from everywhere else escalating in the northern hemisphere that this could have been much worse (for now). RIP to all.
@Anna Anna:
“Including fourteen recorded this month”.
Any idea what this obtuse wording of a simple statistic is meant to convey Anna, or perhaps, more pertinently, what it is meant to obscure.
@Lad: Agreed 100%, but your comment probably won’t be popular here.
@Anna Anna: The daily stats that you post here definitely prove that lockdowns work in supressing the virus.
There can be no denying that now.
@Anna Anna: that positivity rate is moving in the right direction. We’re winning the battle, for the moment at least, and the lockdowns are working.
@Lad: nphet also knows as the HSE. Don’t think most would be so quick to lavish praise on essentially the HSE senior mgt who mis manage an above average EU health service budget year in year out to deliver a below EU average health service. In the private sector that gets you sacked. For nphet / HSE senior mgt it gets them another 4 billion to mis manage next year. It’s true sometimes really life is more messed up than fantasy and amazing how little this gets discussed in the ‘media’.
@Declan: I would be the first to call out the management of the HSE and the system being run over the past decades. But the HSE is the responsibility of the government to control and there is no one person accountable for decades of failures. But this has nothing to do with that, NPHET recommended something against public opinion and that of the government and stuck to what they believed to be right (and they were) while taking the slack. A party could easily have weighed with public opinion as it would have been the safe option.
Not giving praise/credit, whatever you want to call it, because of past HSE failures is moving the goalposts. Their decision is clearly saving lives and to suggest they don’t deserve praise for that is simply moronic. Also don’t say ‘most (people)’, its your opinion.
@Declan: I suggest you actually check out the organisational structure of the HSE executive management team and the members of NPHET. From what I see only on of the HSE executive management team are on NPHET. Also of the 35 members I could find listed only 10 are actually from the HSE.
@Garry Coll: Great wording that time Garry
@NotMyIreland: aren’t the bulk of the remainder from the Dept. Of Health?? Other side of the same coin.
@Lad: you are joking or trolling badly I hope the dept of health are there monitoring the HSE, all part of the same shambles and nobody accountable. Most people can see that….if they want to see the truth that is, obviously you don’t whatever your agenda but hey ho.
Also on the saving lives bit did they not clear the hospitals to the nursing homes…where the deaths occurred…
Well done to NPHET for sticking to their guns on the restrictions, on the Government for implementing them and to the public (in general) for adhering to them.
Our numbers are amongst the best in Europe.
@Hector Son: they are, but NPHET jumped the gun. Level 3 was working.
We need to re-open the country! The vulnerable need to look after themselves
@Hector Son: Agreed. But SFDUP on the verge of undoing our good work
@Joe: keep saying that and i bet eventually you will find someone that agrees with you
@Joe: Joe I take it you dont know anybody who is vulnerable then with that attitude. Assmatic, diabetics, disabled older people, peole with other long term illnesses.
Mpst of those people have been very careful as they have to be.
it is people who are healthy and able that spread Covid-19
@Joe: So people with vulnerabilities should take care of themselves. Anything else you want to add perhaps euthanasia or compound them on Spike Island perhaps? With humans like you amongst us no wonder we are where we are.
@Gary Kearney: dear God. Learn to spell. Please
@Hector Son: our PUP/dole numbers aren’t the best…
@Gary Kearney: put them in L5 isolation. No need for the entire country to be locked down.
@Paul Lanigan: Yes, lock up all those thousands of pesky vunerable people, young and old, so the rest if us can do what we like. Great idea Einstein.
God such a larger death number but also a lower number of cases, beyond the initial and obvious sadness at the loss of life it’s hard to know how to feel toward these figures today
@The God Of All Nerds: Personally I think it shows that we still need to work at this.
The deaths are a consequence of things just getting out of hand again, it was known that 1000plus cases and more would result in increased fatalities and it has, and had the minority simply followed the rules and were a little more pragmatic we’d probably have similar cases and a lot fewer deaths.
16 families right now are crying, angry, forlorn and its a direct result of a minority.
I think we need to drop down to level 4 next week and see what happens for 2 weeks and if cases continue to drop off but deaths continue to be at double digits then back up to 5 until people learn.
My tuppence
@The God Of All Nerds: 14 of the 16 deaths are from the last few weeks not today. Read the article. Very good numbers yet again.
@**CAPTAIN MOUSTACHE AND HIS MAGIC FLUTE: Whats the total for November?
@**CAPTAIN MOUSTACHE AND HIS MAGIC FLUTE: 14 of the 16 deaths are from this month and it’s only 10th.
Seriously it’s time to open Retail, Gyms, sports clubs, bars and restaurants asap.
200 of the last 300 clusters came from private homes.
Clamp down heavier on that and let the businesses who practiced social distancing effectively from the start to open and try and save their business.
@Nothing_player: They’re only the clusters that we know about. How did they get into the home. It looks likely to that surges in France , Italy, etc. are related to cafes, restaurants, bars being open
@Nothing_player: Clamp down on house parties for sure. But a lot of house cases are just from one family member bringing it home and spreading it to the rest of the family.
@Nothing_player: Did you read the reports about superspreaders in restaurants. The reason the hot spots are in private homes is because the restaurants and pubs are shut.
It you want to exercise go for a run.
What was done is workig and you want to open us and sent us back down into more illnesses and deaths and the health service to collapse under the pressure
@Gary Kearney: your logic is astounding. There were little or no restaurant cases in Ireland because they have worked with restrictions since June. What I find amazing is that the virus clever enough to spread back to homes from gyms, cafes and Penny’s but not from schools and colleges.
@Gary Kearney: what are you on about? The reason there was limited clusters in restaurants/pubs when opened as there was procedures and regulations that practiced social distancing.
People are not taking meeting from different households seriously just have to look at social media.
When Fri/Sat comes around people are drinking and gathering in each other’s houses not social distancing as no other option when they could be in pub or restaurant.
Very sad to see so many deaths :(
@Sazzle: Those are not from today. 14 of the 16 deaths are from the last few weeks. Great numbers yet again.
@**CAPTAIN MOUSTACHE AND HIS MAGIC FLUTE: 16 people have died and its great, there’s a special place in the universe for you.
@PaulOMahoney Irish: That’s hardly a fair interpretation of the comment.
@Cian Nolan: yes it is
@PaulOMahoney Irish: so if there was 100 deaths and 10,000 cases then that would not be worse numbers?
Its Flu Season
@Pat Mc Cormack: Have you heard of this thing called Covid going around as well?! Way worse than flu I believe.
@Pat Mc Cormack: Yes it is Pat, this time every year.
@Pat Mc Cormack: Come on, very disrespectful comment
@Pat Mc Cormack: No.
Flu is virtually non-extant, crushed by the social distancing measures we imposed. Flu is down 98% globally.
“a 98% decrease in influenza activity as measured by percentage of submitted specimens testing positive”
and Flu in the US also decreased enormously.
“Inter seasonal (i.e., summer) circulation of influenza in the United States (May 17–August 8, 2020) is currently at historical lows (median = 0.20% tests positive in 2020 versus 2.35% in 2019, 1.04% in 2018, and 2.36% in 2017).”
Olsen, S.J., Azziz-Baumgartner, E., Budd, A.P., Brammer, L., Sullivan, S., Pineda, R.F., Cohen, C. and Fry, A.M., 2020. Decreased influenza activity during the covid-19 pandemic—United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020. , (37), p.1305.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm2
This report fro the the UK Government, also reports extremely low levels of Influenza world wide:
In the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, influenza activity remained below winter-seasonal levels. In the temperate zones of the southern hemisphere, the influenza activity remained low in comparison with previous seasons. Worldwide, of the very low numbers of detections reported, seasonal influenza A viruses accounted for the majority of detections.
In North America, influenza activity indicators were at very low levels.
In Europe,influenza activity remained at inter-seasonal levels.
In Central Asia, no influenza updates for this reporting period.
In Northern Africa, there were no influenza updates for this reporting period.
In Western Asia, there were no influenza detections..
In East Asia, influenza illness indicators and influenza activity remained at inter-seasonal levels..
In the Caribbean and Central American countries, no influenza detections were reported.
In tropical South American, tropical Africa and Southern Asia there were sporadic influenza virus or no detections across reporting countries.
In South East Asia, influenza A(H3N2) virus detection were reported in Cambodia.
@Pat Mc Cormack: Ah Dr. Pat, still here I see spouting your expertise, as I will say to you every time, you be a big big boy and tell the 16 familes that it is flu season, No? Easy to be a coward behind your keyboard but sure see what the families say. Let us know how you go!
@Pat Mc Cormack: still no flu in circulation in Ireland according to the labs that test infections – the HSE issue flu stats as they do for covid, but I think they are weekly. We are lucky so far that the measures to stop the spread of coronavirus are even more effective in stopping the flu virus
@David Jordan: so magically flu disappeared, wake up flu covid are both coronavirus stains do you really think it’s almost vanished, no wonder people are losing trust
@nelliekel: Flu isn’t a coronavirus
@Pat Mc Cormack: Thanks Prof Pat. Your comments are always so informative & enlightening. I look forward to them every day.
@nelliekel: influenza and coronavirus are two separate things.
Your ignorance is astounding at this stage
@David Jordan: I wonder if this “Its Flu Season” is related to the new crazy conspiracy theory going around, that claims that the increase in COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths across Europe and also the US are misdiagnosed Flu cases.
It started a few weeks ago, posts claimed that 3 million people die per year of flu (this is a 10 – 15 fold exaggeration) and that RT-PCR tests are misdiagnosing Flu cases as COVID-19. And now that were in Flu season, that’s why were seeing hospitalisations and death, it’s the Flu bro not COVID-19.
I first noticed the myth spread by Polish on YouTube, many Poles seem to think that the vast increase in COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths in Poland is seasonal Flu. I have also seen Americans tell me this too (Poles also think Drs are being paid to misdiagnose COVID-19, or it something to do with Bill Gates owning the company that makes the RT-PCR machines).
@nelliekel: “wake up flu covid are both coronavirus stains”
No they are not.
Flu is caused by several strains of Influenza A, Influenza B viruses, these are negative sense RNA viruses that make up four of the seven genera of the family Orthomyxoviridae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Virology
SARS-COV-2 on the other hand, is a coronavirus, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus.completely unrelated to Influenza viruses, Other coronaviruses that infect humans include HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, whese cause about 10 – 15% of common colds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus
See I was right, this is the crazy conspiracy theory that claims COVID-19 is the Flu bro!
@nelliekel: SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)
influenza viruses are members of the family Orthomyxoviridae. This family represents enveloped viruses the genome of which consists of segmented negative-sense single-strand RNA segments.
So now there is the science.
Flu is
@David Jordan: Great posting Dude, all of it.
@Pat Mc Cormack: for your convenience I copy the link to the HSE page linking to the weekly HSE Influenza Surveillance reports for 2020/21
National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL):
o Of 599 non-sentinel specimens tested by the NVRL between weeks 40-44 2020, no confirmed influenza or RSV positive detections were reported.
o Virological surveillance with the Irish sentinel GP network will resume in the coming weeks.
o Rhinovirus/enterovirus positive detections increased in September and continued to be detected in
October 2020. Sporadic detections of adenovirus, human metapneumovirus and bocavirus were reported during weeks 40-44 2020, with some rhinovirus/enterovirus co-infections.
• Influenza notifications: No confirmed influenza cases were notified during weeks 40-44 2020.
@Gary Kearney: You’re wasting your time, it’s part of the new crazy claim that the hospitalisations and deaths we’re seeing across Europe are Flu cases misdiagnosed as COVID-19, if people believe such nonsense talking sense to them won’t work, as they demonstrably cannot tell the difference between nonsense and sense in the first place.
@Pat Mc Cormack: are you a member of the flat earth society too ?
@Pat Mc Cormack: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer are ya?
@Jen:
Its a Flu…
Nothing more…
All flu cases are Now being called Covid..
Big agenda here by government to Push for Vaccines
@Pat Mc Cormack: You’re overdoing the tinfoil – https://i.imgur.com/OQdPGOX.jpg
@Pat Mc Cormack: hmm yes I seem to be the only one who disagreed with you here. I’ll let my colleagues in HSE know first thing tomorrow so!
@Pat Mc Cormack: now you’re the blunted knife in the drawer, we dropped on your head boss when you slipped out?
Rip. Cases coming down.
@Jonnie Marre: Are they not coming down? I don’t think he’s the delusional one.
@Jonnie Marre: yep coming down
@Jonnie Marre: bellend
Open the gyms
@jonathan masterson: try exercising your brain
@Mark: Booooooooooommmmm
@Mark:
@Mark:
@Gareth Donegan: Agreed, you’re spot on ;~)
@jonathan masterson: They should all be bulldozed.
@Mark: brilliant comment.. you are so intelligent.. god I wish I was you
We need to be told when and where the deaths are occurring, what age the deceased were and whether they had underlying health conditions. We need this information to help us make informed personal decisions on our behaviour. The authorities are treating us like children.
We are getting there…Please please please these numbers shouldn’t start climbing again.
@Optimus Prime: thats exactly what will happen when we get out of level 5
@Rob: why, the numbers were coming down before level 5 would have taken effect from last Thursday.
Rip how come some many deaths some thing has to be wrong somewhere .questions need to be asked
@Richard Doherty: its 14 deaths spread across this month and two from previous months. So actually not a very high figure.
@Richard Doherty: yawn. Deaths aren’t always recorded asap. Believe it or not, coroners and medics don’t operate in order to satisfy the paranoia of journal readers. There may be Covid related deaths reported months after the pandemic ends. And there may be Covid related deaths denotified months after it ends
@Richard Doherty: the article says it includes more from earlier in the month. Why would questions need to be asked?
@Richard Doherty: Your question was well & truly answered.
@Richard Doherty: nursing homes
Imagine a country with 5.5m people being in lockdown with cases of under 500 per day. But let’s not worry about the 340000+ people put out of work some for nearly a year so far.
RIP & imho the news on the potential vaccine should have been kept quiet until post Christmas, let the testing & stock build up by all means.
@die Fussballmeister: it would be hard to keep something like that quiet, even if it made any sense to which it doesn’t really.
@die Fussballmeister: Had it all along, just needed Trump gone.
40 cases from yesterday were denotified, so increase in cases is 230.
@Bain triail aisti: I don’t understand how cases can be “de-notified” either you have the virus or you don’t.
Very high deaths OMG
@Jonnie Marre: im guessing you havnt actually read the article. They are not deaths from just yesterday.
@Jonnie Marre: OMG OMG OMG the hysteria. Read the article ffs.
They should have got more flu vaccines in to stop spread of flu and they should have stopped travel from Denmark I’m all for being in lock down to stop covid19 but what’s the point if we are letting international travel into this country with out quarantine and letting travel from Denmark to get another form of covid 19 strain..I wonder does the vaccine work against the mink strain.
@Joed: Denmark has closed it borders no traffic human or otherwise is going in or coming out. You might what to educate yourself
Sincere condolences to the 16 families who sadly lost loved ones RIP
Thinking also of patients in hospitals and ICU’s and their families.
Thinking too of people who are experiencing long-term complications after Covid-19 infection.
Special praise and thanks for the dedicated frontline staff.
@Nuala Mc Namara: Absolutely and I think its time for L5 to be dropped and see if the numbers change, if not reimpose it and let the luddites scream alone
Getting good numbers overall and the easy way yo see that is to check it against the rest of Europe and then the world.
Only Finland and Norway are doing better than us and that shows its working.
Norway has called its Home Guard there reserves back into action to patrol the border with Sweden.
So that shows the levels they will go to.
I do not belive these figures at all. No chance. Am I alone in this
@Richard o Rourke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: yes.
@Richard o Rourke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: If you could simply spell your question might have validity.
No is my answer
The curtain twitcher’s getting some oxygen into them, expect some hyperbolic comments.
@Bain triail aisti: like your claptrap?
Tragic that there were so many deaths reported today, but the reporting by some sections of the media, in particular out in the West of Dublin are poor. Doomsayers inc. is what they should be called. Whilst reporting the numbers, would it not have been a positive item if they had reported that notwithstanding the deaths, hospital admissions were down and ICU numbers steady. But no, like the grim reaper, we talk only of deaths and case numbers. Balanced journalism is what the media could do better at.
@John Peeters: Do you mean the ” pour” of West Dublin? Only asking as your post would suggest you are a ” pour” type person
Halloween isn’t over yet. Keep on the masks. Rip to the 16. OPEN the golf courses
We say the number to watch is the deaths scary number of them today rest in peace
@Natasha Gillen: its not scary. 14 from across this month and two from previous month so not really high numbers at all.
@stephen moore: and the other deaths in November add them up if you can.
@Natasha Gillen: Does anybody actually read the bloody articles? 14 of the 16 deaths are spread over the last few weeks FFS not today.
@**CAPTAIN MOUSTACHE AND HIS MAGIC FLUTE: 14 from November we are still in November add the others and give us the total, if you wish you can go back to October and we can then compare from May to September.
Otherwise you’re incredulous post is moot.
@stephen moore: its 16 familys that lost a loved one that are grieving i lost my mam last year its very hard as it is for all the 16 familys that lost there someone special so 16 is a lot when you think of all the family
@**CAPTAIN MOUSTACHE AND HIS MAGIC FLUTE: yes I did read it it doesn’t matter if it was over 3 weeks or 3 days they still died
@PaulOMahoney Irish: Wow. Between your comment here and comment above asking someone ‘to educate’ themselves about Danish borders. Does slagging people off on social media make you feel better about yourself? What makes you such an authority on all things covid. The funny thing is you’re wrong about Denmark. Borders are absolutely not closed.
Had a wonderful weekend down the country. Local pub opened for a few locals and their friends. Pints tasted so good. Was grateful to see that some people are not participating in this nonsense
@Paul Lanigan: are you sure your surname should be langer?
And you are lying
We are doing well cases are coming down, one of the best countries in Europe for controlling the virus, we may have a happy Christmas yet .
RIP https://youtu.be/LKLU5k78IMA Lockdown anthem day 20 twenty days left.
Halloween
RIP to the other 74 people who died yesterday of non-Covid related issues. RIP in peace.
Those deaths aren’t all in 24 hours they are over the course of the last 9 days, Tragic all the same, good to see cases coming down though
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