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Coronavirus: 374 new cases confirmed in Ireland

The Department of Health confirmed the figures in a statement on Twitter.

HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE reported an additional 374 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland as of midnight last night.

The figures were released by the Department of Health in a statement on Twitter this afternoon.

There are now also 99 people in hospital receiving treatment for Covid-19, 35 of which are being treated in ICU.

There is currently no information on the number of deaths of people confirmed to have Covid-19, due to the cyber attack on the HSE earlier this month.

The Department has also said that current case numbers may change due to future data validation when systems are restored.

Due to the cyber attack, the Department has changed how Covid-19 figures will be reported.

Previously, daily positive swab results were reported from laboratories to the HSE’s contact management programme.

Now, daily case numbers will be based on data extracts from the Covid Care Tracker (CCT).

This is the IT system that records data collected from phonecalls with Covid-19 cases and their close contacts. 

Yesterday, the Department confirmed 464 cases of Covid-19, alongside reporting that 90 people were being treated in hospital for Covid-19. 35 of those patients were receiving treatment in ICU.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:30 AM

    Absolute disaster of a country where life is cheap, disease is rampant, parents maim their children and turn them into beggars in order to survive and the rivers are polluted with floating corpses and the upper classes while away their time working on their British accents.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:39 AM

    @Alex Falcone: you’re worse than David Hogan. You should use your opinionated big brain to say things less about the specifics of what happened instead of throw away generalisations

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 12:58 PM

    @Donal Proctor:
    It is a disaster of a country, and that’s why accidents like this happen again and again and again and again….

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 4:29 PM

    @Alex Falcone: Have you been Alex? At 1.25 billion people in India, 15k deaths annually makes their trains statistically a lot safer than our roads, scaling by population.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:36 AM

    @David Hogan: How insightful and inciting of you David to say something so crass. Wasent the first thing that popped into my head to be honest. Poor people. Hope the death toll dosent grow further. Hope they invest money and make the rail system safer. Hope the rich poor divide in India narrows.

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