Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Sunday 28 November
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 28 November 2021
- Last updated on: 30 November 2021
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3,735 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
As of 8am today, 566 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 117 are in ICU.
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:
"While there is much attention on new variants, incidence of the Delta variant of COVID-19 remains too high in Ireland, with widespread infection in the community. We all know the actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 - good hand hygiene, wearing a face covering, meeting others outdoors where possible and, when indoors, opening windows and ensuring good ventilation, keeping your distance and, of course, coming forward for vaccination and booster dose when eligible.
"The NPHET Epidemiological Surveillance Team continue to meet this weekend to monitor the situation in relation to the new variant SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.529 (Omicron) and regulations are being drawn up to give effect to the new travel and home quarantine policies.
"In the meantime, those who have travelled from any of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe to Ireland since 1 November are advised that they should isolate and present for PCR testing, regardless of symptom status. This can be booked for free on HSE.ie."
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Day to day variation in the reported number of cases of COVID-19 does not impact on key trend analysis. Analysing over a longer time period such as a week or 14 days, smooths out any variations introduced by processing times, and provides a more stable picture of the trend.
The number of notifications on CIDR will differ from other HSE data sources, such as positive SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the COVID Care Tracker, for several reasons including:
- deduplication of repeat positive tests in the same person
- differing upload schedules by the laboratories to CCT and CIDR – uploading of positive records on CIDR by laboratories is a more manual process than uploading to CCT. Uploading to CIDR typically occurs on the day or within one day of authorisation of the laboratory test result
- the time required for the two-step method of processing notifications on CIDR - this typically occurs either on the day or within one day of laboratories uploading positive records on CIDR
Statistics on booster vaccinations are now available on the COVID-19 data hub.