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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre have been informed of 325 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

There are now 3,235 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

#COVID19ireland
@hpscireland @roinnslainte @HSELive @CMOIreland

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1245061431143194624?s=20

The @hpscireland has been informed that an additional 17 patients diagnosed with #COVID19 in Ireland have died.

8 are in the east, 3 in the south and 6 in the west.

There have now been 71 #COVID19 related deaths in Ireland.

The median age of COVID-19 related deaths is 84.

Today’s data from @hpscireland, reveals:

· 50% are male and female, with 118 clusters involving
494 cases
· The median age of confirmed cases is 47 years

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· 703 people have been hospitalised
· 113 people have been admitted to ICU

· 647 cases are associated with healthcare workers

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Healthcare workers cases 24% (647)

· 61% are community transmissions
· 14% are travel transmissions
· 26% hospital or healthcare related transmissions

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Healthcare worker case breakdown:

· 33% are allied healthcare workers
· 31% are nurses
· 25% are doctors
· 9% are healthcare assistants
· 1% are porters

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Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health

"National Public Health Emergency Team meeting, we have made and will communicate a recommendation to the contact tracing teams.."

#COVID19

@HSELive @roinnslainte @hpscireland @CMOIreland

Dr Holohan @CMOIreland, @roinnslainte

"..in respect of taking contact tracing history of cases, the important contact period to identify now is 48 hours prior to the onset of symptoms to cover the period of asymptomatic transmission."

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Dr Holohan @CMOIreland, @roinnslainte

"We have seen a further drop in the average number of contacts per case, it is now at 3 contacts per case that is identified through contact tracing."

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Dr Holohan @CMOIreland @roinnslainte

"We are keen to make our contact tracing capacity available to contact suspect cases in priority groups and working with our colleagues in general practice to communicate those arrangements in the next coming days."

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Dr Holohan @CMOIreland @roinnslainte

"Look more closely at nursing homes to identify measures
to strengthen our response and in particular to support staff in managing these individual outbreaks and to look at a range of measures that might help with the @HSELive."

Dr Holohan @CMOIreland @roinnslainte

“The measures that we have recommended today should significantly enhance the preparedness and response to cases and outbreaks in nursing homes and other residential settings.

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Dr Holohan @CMOIreland @roinnslainte

“As we have said from the beginning our efforts must be focused on protecting the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and these recommendations announced today seek to achieve this.”

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Dr Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory

"The number of tests performed as of midnight last night across the country was 30,213."

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Dr Cillian De Gascun,

"People will be aware of constraints on testing at a global level we have been prioritising vulnerable patients and healthcare workers and others in vulnerable groups.

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Dr Cillian De Gascun,

"Unfortunately there are a lot of people in the community awaiting test results of 7 to 10 days. It does not change the plan to ramp up testing over the coming weeks to achieve between 10 and 15,000 tests per day."

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Dr Cillian De Gascun,

"The message for those individuals awaiting test results, to stay isolated, the test is being performed for a population benefit more so than the benefit to the individual. Everybody that is in the system will be tested."

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