Five key Covid-19 updates today: Vaccine boost, travel blow, special education schools reopening
From vaccine news to an update about travel abroad, here s everything you need to know about Ireland s Covid-19 situation today
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In Ireland there will be a large number of Covid-19-related deaths over the coming weeks warned the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.
Holohan issued the demands for people to stay at home after news this week of large numbers of patients dying with the virus since Tuesday, the highest daily numbers in nearly nine months. All but two deaths occurred in January.
Holohan attributed the increase in deaths to unsustainable infection rates and demanded that people must stay home out of respect for those who lost died or were in the hospital.
Thankfully case numbers have dropped and are at their lowest daily figure since New Year’s Day. More cases were recorded in Galway than in Dublin, although it made up only a fraction of the capital’s population. In Monaghan, the most affected county today, one in 38 people has the virus.
Covid cases today Ireland: Another jump as 3,955 new infections confirmed, 28 more deaths irishmirror.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishmirror.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated / Friday, 15 Jan 2021
06:23 what we are seeing in this wave is different to what we have seen since springtime, and perhaps worse, Prof Philip Nolan said
Almost half of all the cases of Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health have been reported in the last two weeks.
Chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan said 44% of all cases were reported in the last fortnight, with one in every 67 people being told they are positive for Covid-19 in that period.
It comes as the Department of Health has reported another 28 Covid-related deaths and 3,955 more cases of the coronavirus.