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Ireland should be braced for ‘quite worrying’ Covid-19 numbers – Nolan

written by Chris McNulty January 2, 2021
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IRELAND should prepare to see up to 6,000 cases of Covid-19 a day as the third wave of the pandemic takes its hold.

The stark warning has been made by the Chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team’s (NPHET) modelling advisory group.

It is expected that there will be more than 3,000 new cases reported this evening and Professor Philip Nolan says that will contain some of the large volume of delayed cases.

“We need to prepare ourselves for some really quite worrying numbers in the coming days both in case numbers and in the hospital system,” Professor Nolan said.

He said Ireland was now in a ‘very significant surge’ and said the public had to ‘fully enter the spirit of measures introduced by the government’.

He said: “The bottom line here is that whether we are facing 2,000 cases a day or 4,000 cases a day it’s far too many.

“It’s more than our health systems or monitoring systems can cope with and it requires the sorts of decisions that government have made in recent days for complete suppression of the virus.”

Ireland should be braced for ‘quite worrying’ Covid-19 numbers – Nolan was last modified: January 2nd, 2021 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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