Covid-19: Five more deaths and 69 new cases

The Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said that four of the deaths are late notifications, relating to April and June. In a statement the National Public Health Emergency Team says that 39 of the cases are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed coronavirus case. Two of the cases have been identified as community transmission.

Dr Glynn told a briefing at the Department of Health that 11 people with Covid-19 cases are in hospitals, five of whom are in intensive care units. Ms Canavan said there were outbreaks in a number of workplace settings, more young people are getting the disease and there has been a shift in the location of the majority of cases from Dublin to other counties.

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