Eucharist and confirmation are causing spikes in the incident, he warns

With Dnegal joining the Level 3 capital, Dublin continued to record the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country yesterday.

324 cases were reported nationwide.

Dublin was the most common, with 167 cases.

There were 42 infections in County Donegal, 34 in Cork, 13 in Monaghan, 12 in Kildare, 8 in Cavan, 6 in Limerick, 6 in Meath, 6 in Roscommon and 5 in Wicklow. There were 25 cases in the remaining 11 counties.

More than half of the new cases were associated with outbreaks, but 81 were due to community infections.

Level 3 crackdowns are valid for three weeks from midnight in County Donegal.

As the number of virus incidents increased, the government was left behind saying “there is no choice but to act and act decisively,” Tao Easy said.

He also warned that more counties could face restrictions unless people pay attention to public health advice and reduce contact with others.

Health experts warned that the proliferation of cases was associated with communion and confirmation parties.

Dr. Anthony Breslin, director of public health HSE Northwest, said these cases were as relevant as those crossing the border.

“When we contacted people, they had events, baptisms, communion, confirmations, and unfortunately funerals.

“They had more than one or two people at these events, making it difficult to manage and maintain social distance and facial coverage, especially when there are young children.”

Dr. Ronan Grin, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said: “Public health physicians are in close contact with identified cases and are encountering cases that arise from people who are not restricted in their movements.

“Remember that Covid-19 is highly contagious and can be transmitted in the absence of symptoms.

“If you are in close contact with a confirmed case, follow the guidelines and limit your travel for 14 days. Go to school or work, take your visitors home, go to a store or pharmacy. Don’t do it. It’s absolutely necessary.

“If a test is provided, please use it.

“Last week, one in ten people tested was found to be positive-many of them were asymptomatic.”

winter

The hidden cost of Covid-19 in delayed medical care for cancer patients and hundreds of thousands of people on the waiting list was revealed in yesterday’s HSE’s € 600 million winter plan.

Cancer centers are “hard” to provide pre-Covid level care, and services for symptomatological breast and prostate cancer are untreated.

The waiting list for hospitals with more than 800,000 public patients requiring surgery, scope, or specialist appointments is deteriorating, and outsourcing patients to private hospitals has little effect on delays.

Winter plans pose challenges due to increasing pressure on hospitals as more people become seriously ill with the virus, restrictions on the provision of care due to strict infection control rules, and the risks faced by patients with other illnesses. Is emphasized.

The HSE program promises to employ 12,500 staff, including public health physicians and contact tracers needed to investigate the Covid-19 case.

In addition, an additional 251 beds in the acute care hospital will open this year, with an additional 232 beds scheduled to open in 2021. An additional 17 beds of emergency hospital will be opened in addition to the existing 282 beds.

By the end of the year, 200 million euros will be spent and by 2021 400 million euros will be spent.

However, the plan warns that the key potential risk is “if you can’t permanently provide a significant number of key posts, you can’t attract and maintain the right number and capacity of staff.”

Other important elements of the plan are:

Keep people as far away from the hospital as possible with a variety of community support, including home care time for nearly 5 million people.

Approximately 20 hubs with doctors and nurses are located nationwide, and GPs can refer patients to respiratory care.

General practitioners, including many over the age of 75, increase access to patient diagnosis in separate bids to reduce urgent attendance.

Ten more hospitals will have access to non-invasive endoscopy procedures.

The goal is to reduce the number of trolleys by 30 percent and reduce the number of patients who do not require medical care and instead drop off facilities to 450 or less.

Private hospitals are expected to agree to provide surge capacity if the level of overcrowding is too high.

Paul Reed, the head of HSE who started the plan, said he expects all medical staff to get the flu vaccine.