The Department of Health in the Irish Republic will refrain from publishing confirmed numbers of Covid-19 patients, at weekends, for the foreseeable future at least.
However, we learn that the number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 here in the Irish Republic now stands at the lowest level so far in 2022.
According to the Department of Health, there were 649 patients with the killer virus, being treated in hospital, as of 8:00am this morning, down 58 in number at the same time yesterday.
Today’s confirmed number compares to a figure of 940 on this day, two weeks ago and a tally of 836 just last Saturday; almost 40% down from the recent peak of 1,063 patients on January 10th last.
At 11:30am today, there were 66 patients with Covid-19 in our intensive care units around the country, same figure a decline of 3 based on reported figures confirmed also yesterday.
In Northern Ireland, there are 3,590 confirmed cases of coronavirus confirmed today, down from 3,737 cases reported yesterday.
Sadly however, there were 3 Covid-19-related deaths reported also in Northern Ireland, over the past 24 hours.
Please continue this downward hospital virus trend by getting your booster vaccination dose, as soon as applicable.
Leave a Reply