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Nursing home residents can have one visitor weekly from today as incidence rate drops to 80

Dec 7, 2020 07:56 By News Northern Sound
Nursing home residents can have one visitor weekly from today as incidence rate drops to 80
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If the level of Covid-19 restrictions rise, it would change to one visitor every two weeks.

The estimated national 14-day incidence rate is now 80 - the lowest it's been since September 25th.

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There were 301 new cases of the virus were detected yesterday .

In the Shannonside Northern Sound Region Monaghan had 7 confirmed cases yesterday, and Cavan had 6, while Longford, Roscommon and Leitrim each had fewer than 5.

Leitrim is the county with the lowest incidence rate nationally at 15.6.

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There are calls on the Department of Health to outline when a batch of Covid-19 around 100 samples, which were reported late - were collected.

Professor Sam McConkey of the RCSI says the late figures are an understandable slip -- but officials need to release all the data.

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