It is confirmed that there is six futher deaths related to Covid-19 in Ireland. There is a further 675 cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases in Ireland to 59,434.
The number of people died from Coronavirus now stands at 1,896.
At last night’s National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) briefing, officials said they were not anticipating a need to advise the government to keep schools closed after the mid-term break.
Dr Holohan said that “in terms of the data we’re looking at, we do not anticipate that we’ll be in a situation where we’ll be going back to advise the minister to advise Government that on public health grounds, we wouldn’t see at this moment in time that schools shouldn’t reopen as planned”.
Holohan also said that typical Halloween celebrations would not be possible this year, and that children or families from different households should not meet to mark the day.
“The kind of mixing that that would go on is social settings that we are all familiar with at Halloween time – visiting one anothers houses, gathering together in the evening time for the kind of celebrations that we all miss – these things are just not going to be possible this year I’m afraid,” Holohan said.
Earlier today, Northern Ireland’s Department of Health confirmed that an additional nine deaths and 840 new Covid-19 cases had been confirmed in the North.
Sources https://www.thejournal.ie/coronavirus-daily-updates-latest-figures-covid-19-ireland-5247152-Oct2020/
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