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“Keep fighting hard against Covid-19 virus”

The Walsh Mushrooms facility situated in Golden, near Cashel, in South/West Co, Tipperary, has been closed by the HSE, following 11 of their staff having tested positive for Covid-19 virus.
A testing centre is now currently been constructed by the HSE, with the assistance of the Irish Army, on the grounds of Golden Church. The remained of the workers in the factory will be tested over the next 24hrs.

The mushroom operation had continued operating and harvesting mushrooms after one member of their staff had been confirmed with the virus yesterday.

Co. Tipperary could now find itself in a similar situation to our neighbours Laois and Offaly and could be facing a localised lockdown in the days ahead.

This evening, the Department of Health has confirmed that there have been zero new death caused by the Covid-19 pandemic; leaving the overall death toll here in the Republic of Ireland remaining at 1,774.

However, there are 67 new additional cases reported to the Department of Health, leaving the current total number of confirmed cases, since conception in the Irish Republic, at 26,995.

Eighteen of the new cases are in Co. Dublin, 17 in Co. Kildare, 9 in Co. Clare, 5 in Co. Limerick, with the rest in counties Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Donegal, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Wexford and Wicklow.

County Carlow now has the highest 14 day incident rate outside of Laois, Offaly and Kildare; latter the three counties currently under lockdown restrictions, with Carlow numbers rising from 10.5 to 31.6 in the space of just four days.

The Co. Kildare rate however has remained the worst, rising from 138.4 up to 146.1, as at August 8th.

Sixteen more staff in the healthcare sector, have tested positive for the covid-19 virus in the week ending midnight on Saturday last. Two of these workers have been hospitalised. A total of 329 healthcare staff, aged between 34 and 54, have now been hospitalised since March 2020.

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“Keep fighting hard against Covid-19 virus”

This evening, the Department of Health has confirmed that there have been 1 new death caused by this pandemic, leaving the overall death toll here in the Republic of Ireland remaining at 1,774.

However, there are 40 new additional cases reported to the Department of Health, leaving the current total number of confirmed cases, since conception in the Irish Republic at 26,838. [3 cases de-notified]

There were 12 cases in Dublin (12,625); 11 in Kildare (1,862); 7 in Offaly (585); and the rest of the cases are in Tipperary [Two new cases confirmed] (548); Clare (411); Donegal (495); Limerick (630); Meath (849); Roscommon (346) and Wicklow (717).

The number of people in intensive care units continues to remains in low figures.

Meanwhile, those involved in agriculture around Ireland are being asked to wear face coverings when attending marts and other communal settings. Although the wearing of masks is not mandatory at local marts, which are partly outdoor events, best practice is being encouraged within mart offices and auction ring areas.

In all 126 pubs are now suspected of breaching Covid-19 regulations. Between August 4th and 9th 2020 Gardaí found breaches of health regulations or licencing laws on 14 different occasions. The majority of these cases continue to refer to no evidence of food being served or consumed.
Files are currently being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in each of these cases.

The latest 14 day incidence of confirmed cases of Covid-19, latter published by the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), has Ireland on 17.8 cases, for every 100,000 people resident here.

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“Keep fighting hard against Covid-19 virus”

This evening, the Department of Health has confirmed that there have been 1 new death caused by this pandemic, leaving the overall death toll here in the Republic of Ireland remaining at 1,773.

No new cases have been confirmed in Tipperary for the second day.

However, there are 35 new additional cases reported to the Department of Health, leaving the current total number of confirmed cases, since conception in the Irish Republic at 26,801.

Five of the new cases have been identified as community transmission while 24 are associated with close contacts with other confirmed cases.

Weekly testing for Covid-19 will be now be rolled out at all meat plants and direct provision centres across the country.

Speaking after this morning’s Cabinet sub-committee meeting, Taoiseach Mr Micheál Martin stated: “There will be a systemic programme of testing at all meat plants across the country; along with direct provision accomodation centres. This had been proved particularly successful with nursing homes and will also now continue with nursing homes on a regular basis also”.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) have stated that any ‘WHO stamp of approval’ on a Covid-19 vaccine would require a rigorous safety data review, after Russia announced that it had approved a vaccine for immediate use.

Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ vaccine has been developed, we are told, by the Gamaleya research institute, in co-ordination with the country’s defence ministry, financed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund.