BREAKING: Significant concerns remain as Limerick records highest daily Covid figure since latest surge began
Reporter:
“SIGNIFICANT concerns” are continuing to be expressed in relation to a Covid-19 surge in Limerick.
Provisional data shows that the latest daily figure for Limerick - up to midnight on Wednesday - is 61 new cases of the virus.
This is the highest daily figure for cases since the latest surge began.
There has now been 420 cases in Limerick between May 16 and May 26.
A total of 436 new cases of Covid-19 across the country were confirmed this Thursday evening.
Asked this Thursday evening at the weekly HSE media briefing about the recent spike in cases in the Limerick area, HSE CEO Paul Reid said: What we are seeing every week is that it changes in different areas. I know last week it was the Mid West, Letterkenny, some parts of Dublin and some parts of Offaly so we see a change on a weekly basis but, in particular, there were issues in the Mid West
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