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Every county now has an estimated 14-day incidence rate of less than 300

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

01:47 10 Nov 2020


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It's the first time this has happened in 36 days.

Every county now has an estimated 14-day incidence rate of less than 300 for the first time in 36 days.

The national figure now stands at 161 per 100,000 people.

HSE CEO Paul Reid tweeted this morning to say there are continued good trends on the reduction in the number of cases - but there's still more work to be done:

In hospitals today, there are 279 patients with the disease. This is the lowest number since October 18th, while there are still 41 people in ICU.

Three counties, Wicklow, Wexford and Leitrim all having 14-day incidence rates of less than 100 - with Leitrim on just 37 after finding 12 Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks.

The news comes following the announcement by Pfizer about its vaccine being 90 percent effective in trials.

The European Commission is in talks to order 200 million doses of the jab, and it is expected it would be rolled out to member states on a per capita basis.

It's believed on that basis, Ireland could get around two million vaccines.


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