Dr. Tony Holohan explains the steep rise in Covid-19 deaths reported on Monday

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This is because the death toll that the National Public Health Emergency Team reports each evening is the number of deaths they have been informed about on particular day, rather than the numbers who actually died on that day.

He said the deaths reported at the Department of Health briefing on Monday were spread throughout the month but they were notified of them on Monday.

Today’s figure for mortality was 77 notified deaths of laboratory confirmed #COVID19.

The graphs show that they occurred over a period of time and that our daily growth rate in the notification of these deaths by date of occurrence continues to decrease.
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— Dr Tony Holohan (@CMOIreland) April 20, 2020

"The graphs show that they occurred over a period of time and that our daily growth rate in the notification of these deaths by date of occurrence continues to decrease," Holohan said.

He then tweeted the breakdown below, which shows on what days exactly the 77 deaths occurred in Ireland, from April 2nd until Monday, April 20th.

687  have died due to Covid-19 in Ireland since the pandemic began, while 15,652 are currently confirmed to be infected with the virus.