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Spread of Covid-19 from shop worker led to 54 people becoming infected Doctor fears close contacts will think Covid tracing are hoax calls linked to cyberattack about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 2:45 The case study by public health doctors in the midlands shows how onward transmission can spread the virus into different settings from close contacts. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 ...

While numbers fully vaccinated remain low, focus must remain on controlling spread of infection, Nphet warns

“There’s a lot of testing around it now and there will be knock-on tentacles,” said Dr Fallon. “It’s early days but source investigation might uncover what you might call super-spreader events; an event like a party or people who have been to a shebeen or a big household gathering. “I think we are missing that currently. I don’t think people volunteer that [information], but we probed and asked... I think that is the advantage of what the contact tracers are doing now.” Plans for contact tracers to identify the source of Covid-19 outbreaks in the community came into practice ...

Enhanced contact tracing will aid in the uncovering of secret ‘super-spreader events’, such as family parties and social gatherings, which are fuelling the stubborn levels of Covid infection.   The new regime of tracing cases back seven days is finding ‘missing links’ explaining why infection numbers are not falling faster. Dr Una Fallon, Director of Public Health, HSE Midlands, said the new process, which was added to the national contact-tracing protocol just last week, would help reveal previously hidden information. It has already alerted public health in her area to a positiv...

The pop-up hubs will operate for seven days in the Dublin locations and for five in all the others, except for the centre in Ballinasloe that will only be running for three days.  The tests are free for anyone over the age of 16 and anyone living within 5km of a centre is being encouraged to attend.  As of the latest Covid-19 figures, Co Offaly remains the county with the highest infection rate in the country. It is followed by Donegal and then Dublin.  In Tullamore, the 14-day incidence rate stands at 823 per 100,000 population. However, as it has  a walk-in test centre for people witho...