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The Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland has confirmed 1,459 new cases of Covid-19, within the past 24 hours; up 124 based on yesterdays reported figures.

Currently there are 296 people in our hospitals, latter figure up 14 on Saturday’s reported count.

There remain 65 patients in ICU, same figure unchanged since yesterday.

Possible Future Hope:

Professor Luke O’Neill (Professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin) has stated that 100 immunologists who attended a recent conference in Munich, at which he attended, were speculating that the spring of 2022, could be a turning point in the fight to stamp out the current virus.
He further explained; “What that means is the virus has gone endemic and if you do catch it you’d have symptoms like the common cold. There’s a reasonable chance that it might get more benign. Other viruses become less troublesome as they spread and maybe this one will be more like that, so that’s a reasonable thing to say, but it’s an unknown to be honest.”

Meanwhile, the Department of Health in Northern Ireland has confirmed another 1,020 positive cases of the virus within the same 24 hour period.

Sadly, a further 6 patients, latter who had previously tested positive for Covid-19, have died.

Both figures north and south bring to 2,479 the number of coronavirus cases confirmed on the mainland of Ireland; latter figure up 24 in total on yesterdays reported figures.

Vaccination continues to offer the best protection against the most severe effects of COVID-19, including hospitalisation and death.

The Department of Health here in the Republic of Ireland has confirmed 1,355 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

There are 286 people in hospital, up 14 on yesterday, with 59 of these are in intensive care units, down 4 on yesterday’s reported figures.

School managers, primary teachers and SNA trade unions are meeting Department of Education officials to discuss the relaxing of close contact rules, in primary schools and early learning centres.

The meeting comes as schools and centres have received guidance telling them that if they become aware of a case of Covid-19 in a child or in an adult who has recently attended their facility, they no longer have to contact the HSE.
The positivity rate among primary school age children had seen a massive 14.5% rise during the last week of August, however by last week this rate has dropped to 5.2%.

In Northern Ireland their Department of Health has reported 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

There were 383 Covid-19 patients in their hospitals, 31 of these were in intensive care units. Sadly, also a further eight deaths have been reported there, during this same time frame.

Meanwhile, the EU’s drug watchdog, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), have stated that it expects to decide in early October whether to approve boosters of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for all people aged over 16. Protection against the disease is shown to decrease in the months following the first jabs, the head of vaccine strategy Mr Marco Cavaleri has informed a news conference.

Vaccination continues to offer the best protection against the most severe effects of COVID-19, including hospitalisation and death.