Covid-19: 7,836 new cases and 17 further deaths; Ireland is in “serious phase of this surge of Covid-19”

The Department of Health has confirmed 7,836 new cases of Covid-19 and 17 further deaths.

There have now been a total of 121,154 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 2,299 deaths related to the virus in Ireland.

According to rte

Earlier, Health Service Executive Chief Executive Paul Reid said Ireland has exceeded the peak level of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Healthy people are getting very sick. Everyone gets how serious this is now. Let’s all do what’s needed, turn this around, save lives, whilst the vaccine arrives. We have to,” Mr Reid wrote on Twitter.

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