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Kildare's Covid 19 14 Day Incidence Rate Remains The 2nd Highest In Ireland.

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Only Donegal's rate is higher.

Kildare's 14 day Covid 19 incidence remains the second highest in Ireland, after Donegal.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony Holohan, last named both counties as among four where transmission rates of the virus were of concern.

558 people in Kildare have been diagnosed with the virus in the two weeks to May 9th.

The incidence rate here is 250.8 cases per 100,000 people.

The national R rate is 129 and 6,144 new diagnoses.

The rate in Donegal is 260 and 488 new cases.

County

Today's cases (to
midnight 09MAY2021)

5 day moving average
(04MAY2021 – 09MAY2021)

14-Day incidence
rate per 100,000
population (26APR2021
to 09MAY2021)

New Cases during
last 14 days (26APR2021
to 09MAY2021)

Ireland

381

425.4

129

6,144

Donegal

39

28

260.7

415

Kildare

30

34

250.8

558

Westmeath

13

11

201.6

179

Dublin

188

202

190.3

2,564

Roscommon

5

10

164.2

106

Meath

<5

15

142.5

278

Cavan

0

6

137.8

105

Tipperary

13

7

118.5

189

Monaghan

5

6

114

70

Limerick

13

14

110.3

215

Louth

<5

7

105.5

136

Offaly

<5

4

97.5

76

Longford

0

1

93

38

Carlow

7

3

89.6

51

Cork

13

33

86.4

469

Wicklow

9

6

82.9

118

Galway

11

9

75.2

194

Waterford

6

5

74.9

87

Leitrim

0

1

65.5

21

Wexford

12

9

49.4

74

Laois

<5

3

41.3

35

Kilkenny

<5

3

40.3

40

Clare

<5

4

39.6

47

Mayo

<5

3

36

47

Sligo

0

0

18.3

12

Kerry

<5

2

13.5

20

12,315 people in Co. Kildare have been diagnosed with Covid-19, since testing began, following 30 new cases confirmed, last night.

Nationally, no additional deaths were notified, and 381 new cases of the virus were confirmed.

188 cases are in Dublin, 39 are in Donegal, 13 in Limerick, 13 in Cork, 13 in Tipperary, 13 in Westmeath and the remaining 72 cases are spread across 15 other counties.

31 of the 124 Covid patients in hospital are receiving intensive care, while the 5-day moving average of cases now stands at 425.

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