It is, in fact, 8,089.
It turns out you can’t just add today’s number to yesterday’s total any more.
Here’s why: [hopefully brief thread]
[ * DoH and HSE only consider you “tested” when you have received a result. Until then you are ‘sampled’. ]
The HSE has agreed to send unread non-priority (and therefore older) samples to a German lab to be analysed there.
But here’s the thing: the Dept of Health is not including them in its daily figure of “new confirmed cases”.
DoH isn’t including them in the daily figure because it says to do so would give a misleading, alarmist impression of actually *new* cases.
Those aren’t included in the “total” of 7,054. The true total is actually 7,054 + 1;035 = 8,089.
In short, we can no longer just add today’s number to yesterday’s total: we have to also add the German samples which are simultaneously both old and new.
So, 🤷🏼♂️.