HIER SOIR, the Taoiseach’s message in earnest.
“We are at another critical time,” Michael Martin said. “If we want to restrict the number of other people who become seriously ill or die from the virus, we want to stick to these public fitness measures.
“We can’t go back. If we falter now, all the sacrifices we have made to date will be in vain.”
Accompanying this brutal precaution of the Taoiseach, a series of new measures aimed at reducing Covid-19 in Ireland.
They come with sporting events and closed-door matches, restricting the interior and meetings, and asking older adults to restrict their interactions to a small network.
Over the weekend, Dr. Ronan Glynn, acting medical director, said we had noticed several groups and a growing number of cases in many parts of the country and that we had described it as “deeply troubling.”
“The virus is there and it’s not gone,” he said.
But where exactly are we with Covid-19 right now? Let’s see. All the knowledge described below is derived from the knowledge provided through the Ministry of Health/HSE.
Case
The general figure announced through the Ministry of Health is the number of new bodies in Ireland.
Where the numbers were relatively low in June and early July, they have begun to rise sharply in recent weeks.
Yesterday, new instances of Covid-19 were announced here. This brought the total number of instances shown here to 27,499.
So far, the August day has had more than 30 new cases shown.
On August 8, 174 instances were announced in several months.
This eclipsed august 15 when two hundred instances were announced.
So far, most cases this month have referred to other people under the age of 45. Although it is classified as a minor threat of seriously ill due to the virus, the spread in any segment of the population carries the threat that others The maximum threat of people from the virus can contract it.
There have been more than 1,400 new instances of Covid-19 this month.
To put this in a little more context, this is more than the total june and July number combined.
It should be noted, however, that the figures we are seeing lately in terms of new instances are not directly comparable to the mid-March scenario, when the daily figures rose to double digits in the 3 digits and remained so for two months.
However, when comparing our scenario with other countries, it is transparent that Ireland’s scenario has worsened for some of our European counterparts.
The most recent knowledge of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) indicates that Ireland has recorded 22.5 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in the last fortnight.
This is the UK striker (20.4), Germany (15.3) and Italy (10.0). But the least favoured countries are France (41.4), Sweden (39.4), Belgium (60.8) and Spain (132.2).
Where are those cases?
As we know, epidemics in direct distribution centres and meat processing have led to new restrictions in Kildare, Laois and Offaly.
This month, as of August 16, 431 cases were shown in Kildare, in Laois and 109 in Offaly.
At the same time, 211 new ones were registered in Dublin.
It is clear that Kildare is experiencing the greatest accumulation of cases, however, as 38 have been reported at Tipperary, 20 in Limerick and seven in Clare.
Other countries seem to be doing much better. Again, as of August 16, Leitrim had a case shown this month.
Yesterday, 75 of the 190 instances were related to outbreaks or are close contacts of a case shown. Fourteen other cases were network transmission, i.e. the government can’t where someone placed the virus. The source of the outbreak in yesterday’s remaining figures has not been shown.
So far this month, 183 groups of viruses have been known in the country.
The groups are connected to Kildare, Laois and Offaly to meat processing plants, but live and paint in the community. It is estimated that between 400 and 500 of the 1250 instances in the following two weeks are similar to meat plants or direct supply centres.
Dr. Glynn said cases have been recorded as far west as Birr and Tullamore, to the east as Maynooth and Clane, and south to Abbeyleix and Durrow.
The cumulative onset of the virus also indicates that Carlow, Clare, Donegal, Limerick and Wexford have experienced outbreaks during the following week, much smaller than Laois, Kildare and Offaly, however, there are epidemics involved in the fitness authorities.
The first fortnight of August was ruled by outbreaks in the office, in the house and in the circle of relatives with few remote or sporadic instances. However, the latest statistics show that office outbreaks are shrinking and an increasing number of cases for which the government has not yet located a link.
Test
In the last seven days, 55,129 Covid-19 tests were conducted with a 1.3% positivity. The total number of tests performed in the last 24 hours is 4,339 and a total of 729,913 tests have been performed in total.
However, the government has been criticized for slowing down its tracking formula in recent weeks.
This happened as the number of cases that accumulated and the number of people coming to look for a check increased considerably. Contact trackers also saw their workload increase as the number of instances increased.
According to the HSE, the average time between the referral and appointment in the last seven days is 0.9 days, with an average of 1.3 days between a swab and a result.
When it comes to touch search, it takes an average of 1.8 days to make all calls.
Hospitals
Despite the increase in the number of cases, our hospitals face the same type of tension (back) they had at the beginning of the pandemic.
At 8 a.m. this morning, it was shown that 17 other people had been treated with Covid-19 at the hospital. Last night, Irish hospitals were treating 137 suspected Cases of Covid-19.
Also this morning, there are six Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit. Again, it is very low and well below the peak of 140 patients in April.
Last night, there were four covid-19 patients who showed fans.
At all times, it has been pointed out that the Irish aptitude formula would have difficulty dealing with strong accumulation in the cases of Covid-19 and the most recent HSE figures confirm this.
Last night, there were 426 beds of extensive care in the system. Of these, 348 were open and staffed.
But 285 of them were occupied, there were 31 public beds of extensive care available.
The HSE under pressure – from this figure of 31 – that “due to the dynamic nature of reporting, the available beds possibly differ depending on the capacity and prestige reserved at the individual sites for extensive care beds”.
It is clear that the construction of such beds in the coming months will put pressure on the fitness service.
Death
That’s where the numbers are also low right now. So far, 1,775 deaths have been shown through Covid-19 in Ireland, and yesterday some other user was shown dead.
Five deaths shown on August 6 were recorded in several weeks, and no new deaths from the virus were observed several days.
However, as the virus continues to spread and cases increase, the government warned that, as a result, the death toll is likely to recede.
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