93 new cases, no deaths, Mayo unchanged

There have been 93 new cases of Covid-19 reported today - and no additional deaths.

It brings the total number of confirmed cases  to 28,453, while there have been 1,777 deaths.

The situation in Mayo remains unchanged on 578.

Key findings today are:

70% of the cases involve people under the age of 45.

Of the 93 cases, 73 are associated with outbreaks or area close contacts of a confirmed case.

12 cases are community transmission.

34 of the 93 cases are in Dublin, with seven in Kildare, six each in counties Donegal and Laois and five each in Limerick and Wexford.

Professor Philip Nolan, head of the National Public Health Emergency Team Epidemiological Modelling Group, said: "The R-number is now between 1 and 1.2.

"While this is an improvement on what we have seen recently, it is still not where we want to be.

"We are still seeing growing transmission of the disease and we need to bring the R-number back below 1 if we are to effectively slow the spread of Covid-19 and suppress its transmission."

Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ronan Glynn said the National Public Health Emergency Team considered the issue of pubs that do not serve food.

But he said given the current epidemiological situation it did not feel it would be appropriate for them to open next week and the situation is being kept under review.