Dr Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory
This morning.
The Department of Health has announced two deaths and 552 new cases of Corvid-19.
Via RTÉ
The daily number of new cases of Covid-19 has been lower than 1,000 every day since Sunday 25 October, when 1,025 cases were announced.
The latest figure is just over half that total.
The 14-day incidence rate of the disease has decreased, along with the positivity rate.
There has also been a drop in the number of close contacts reported by confirmed cases.
The latest figures from the HSE show the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospital at 325.
Of these 44 patients are in ICU.
Meanwhile…
The Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory said the suspension of testing this weekend due to staffing issues, did not play a part in the lower number of cases.
Dr Cillian de Gascun said there was enough capacity in the system to deal with the 600-700 swabs the NVRL would normally test during the weekend.
Anyone?
Public urged not to drop guard as Covid-19 cases fall (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Dr Paul Duffy of Pfizer says the company is hopeful of movement to the next step of releasing a candidate Covid vaccine by the third week in November, and is already manufacturing candidates at scale in the hope of early rollout pic.twitter.com/kR3FmFkcD5
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 2, 2020
I am sure like all multinational companies in Ireland Pfizer has (for themselves) excellent tax arrangements in Ireland that wonderfully benefits their shareholders unlike Irish SMES. What arrangements outside of the EU Vaccine Strategy agreement on vaccines has Ireland agreed with Pfizer? Zilch!
We should be looking for first dibs as soon as the scientific information is in.
Indeed.
Same for Regeneron, who gave Trump his Covid cocktail
They’re in Limerick
https://www.regeneron.ie/
But sure we’ll just let them ship it out of here. Don’t want to rock the boat with the yanks.
Agree.
Lets drive these evil multinationals out of here, refuse the billions they pay in tax, throw their employees on the scrapheap and return the country to the state it was in 1957.