As the UN Health Agency warn that a more dangerous variant of concern, other than the current Omicron could be lurking just round the corner, here in the Irish Republic in the past 24 hours there have been 11,741 new Covid infections.
Of this tally, 5,252 were PCR-confirmed cases, while 6,489 were positive confirmed antigen tests, down on the 12,508 cases reported in the Republic yesterday.
This morning, there were confirmed 1,535 Covid patients in our Republic’s hospitals, with 58 of these in intensive care units countrywide.
The total number of Covid-19-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, in the Republic, now stands at 6,740, as per our latest update of yesterday.
A further 1,461 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Northern Ireland today, up from the 1,414 cases reported yesterday.
Today, there were 522 people with the virus in northern hospitals, while 6 patients were in intensive care.
Sadly, 3 new Covid-19-related deaths have also been reported in Northern Ireland today, bringing the total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic to 3,323.
Remember mask-wearing, although a minor inconvenience for people, could bring this wave of the Covid-19 virus to a much faster conclusion.
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