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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed 3,024 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
As of 8am today, there were 458 Covid-19 patients in hospital, of which 90 were receiving intensive care.
Yesterday, there were 3,174 new cases of Covid-19, 460 people with the virus in hospital and 86 in ICUs.
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) said yesterday that there had been 56 deaths notified to them in the past week, bringing Ireland’s total to 5,492.
NPHET officials have also advised people to reduce their close contacts this winter.
CMO Dr Tony Holohan said it was about using the basic public health measures as advised last week, like mask wearing and hand sanitizer, along with the new advice issued yesterday for people to reduce their close contacts.
“We know it works,” Dr Holohan said.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar told reporters yesterday that the government will never reimpose Covid-19 based on cases numbers alone.
There are no plans to reimpose restrictions at present, he said, as Covid-19 cases are not translating into hospitalisations in the same way they were previously.
“We do have high case levels but the vaccine wall is holding. The number of people in hospital is high and the number of people in ICU is high but it’s more or less were we would have expected it to be at this stage given the protections so it’s a case of hold firm and stick with the plan,” he said.
A technical issue impacted processing of Covid-19 cases on Tuesday 2 November resulting in an artificially low number of notifications reported on that day, and an elevated count on Wednesday 3 November.
NPHET said that given the impact on notifications for these days, the daily case numbers of 3,174 and 3,024 reported yesterday and today respectively, are based on SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the Covid Care Tracker.
“The technical issue has been resolved and daily case reporting through CIDR will recommence in the coming days,” according to a statement from NPHET.
With reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha.
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Bill Gates does amazing work for the third world, so not a bad person to see topping the list.
I’m sure he could be doing more if he’s got 59 billion in his account.
@Julian – he is givening most of it away to Charities in his will.
I’m pretty sure theres a couple of electricians working for the ESB that should be on the list…
But are they happy….?
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Bill looks happy :)
I’ve met David Koch many times… Nice guy and yes he’s happy.
No, but they can cry in their $200m yacht!
Hmm that can’t be right! Where is the president of Ireland on that list ?????????
You know what is sickening those five people have more than 250 billion of the worlds resources. How many lives could they save, how could they make the world a better place if they gave even half of it away. Everything that’s wrong with the world is manifested in that list, pure greed.
Warren Buffett is also heavily involved in the Gates Foundation and has allowed his name to be put on Obama’s new tax measures that intend to close tax loop holes for the mega wealthy. It will never pass gestation but it has good intentions.
Lest we also forget that Gates was a ruthless cut throat towards his competitors even by American standards. I guess he wants to repent or polish his legacy or both.
No time like the present, why doesn’t he donate ten or twenty billion now, I’m sure he’ll survive.
You the man
In all seriousness, who cares?
You seem you care – you didn’t have to click the link to the story if you didn’t care
I can’t believe David Hasselhof didn’t make it into the top ten…?
He must be drinking more than I thought.
David Koch only has $25? I might have more!
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