⁍ Ireland reports highest daily death toll since May and third-highest number of daily cases recorded to date.
⁍ The 613 new cases on Saturday was the highest daily total since late April.
⁍ Ten more people died, bringing the total number of coronavirus-related deaths to 1,810.
– Ireland saw 613 new cases of coronavirus yesterday, the third-highest daily total to date and the highest since April, when the country was in the midst of a full lockdown related to the virus, Reuters reports. Ten more people died, bringing the total number of coronavirus-related deaths to 1,810. “The numbers being reported today and over the past week represent a significant escalation in the profile of COVID-19 in Ireland,” the country’s acting chief medical officer said in a statement. He urged people over the age of 70 and those who are medically vulnerable to limit the number of people they meet to a very small core group of family members, carers or friends, and for short periods of time. Ireland has reported just over 100 cases per 100,000 people in the past 14 days, the 16th-highest COVID-19 infection rate out of 31 European countries monitored by the European Center for Disease Control. The British-run region of Northern Ireland, which shares an open border with Ireland, reported 726 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, having smashed its record daily total a day earlier to bring its seven-day cumulative case total to 164.7 per 100,000 people.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-ireland/ireland-seeing-significant-escalation-in-covid-19-cases-idUSL8N2GU0L4