New Covid positive cases in Cavan and Monaghan

Up to Tuesday, August 25 there have been 886 cases in Cavan, with four new reported infections in the past two weeks.

Cavan and Monaghan have both reported as having new Covid infections, according to the latest update from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today.

While there have been no new deaths reported (1,777 to date) as of midnight on Wednesday last, August 26, the HPSC were notified of 93 new confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Of that number, 34 are in Dublin, 7 in Kildare, 6 in Donegal, 6 in Laois, 5 in Limerick, 5 in Wexford.

The remaining 30 cases are in Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Louth, Meath. Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wicklow.

Up to Tuesday, August 25 there have been 886 cases in Cavan, with four new ireported nfections in the past two weeks.

In Monaghan, there have been 556 cases, with 13 cases in the past two weeks.

Of the most recent cases, 52 are men and 41 are women, with 70% under 45 years of age.

There is now a total of 28,453 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

A total of 12 of the most recently reported 93 cases have been identified as community transmission

The HSE is working to identify any contacts the patients may have had to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread.

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said; “We continue to see a slow growth of COVID-19 in Ireland.

“The most effective action we can take to reduce the transmission rate of this virus is to reduce our number of close contacts. If we do this and keep practicing the other safe behaviours by continuing to physical distance, avoid crowds, wash our hands, cover our coughs and sneezes, wear a face mask where appropriate and download the COVID Tracker app, we have a real chance of slowing the spread of the virus to where we want it to be.”

Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said; “The R-number is now between 1 and 1.2. While this is an improvement on what we have seen recently, it is still not where we want to be. We are still seeing growing transmission of the disease and we need to bring the R-number back below 1 if we are to effectively slow the spread of COVID-19 and suppress its transmission.”

Dr. John Cuddihy, Director, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HSE said; “We are identifying outbreaks in a number of different settings such as private homes, workplaces and social settings.

“Congregated settings are ideal environments for this disease to spread between people. We all must avoid such congregations if we are going to break the chains of transmission of the virus.”