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Cluster blamed for increase in Covid-19 cases in Cavan

Aug 4, 2020 12:45 By News Northern Sound
Cluster blamed for increase in Covid-19 cases in Cavan
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A cluster of Covid-19 cases is being blamed for a significant increase in the number of cases recorded in Cavan in recent days. Its

A cluster of Covid-19 cases is being blamed for a significant increase in the number of cases recorded in Cavan in recent days.

Its increase of six recorded on Friday is in contrast to Roscommon which has seen no new cases in the last four weeks.

Cavan has now seen 876 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly listed it among the counties affected by clusters at the weekend, with six cases recorded on Friday.

Roscommon has seen no new cases in the last four weeks, topping the list for the number of days without a new case of Covid 19 - it's seen 346 confirmed cases.

The last rise in Longford was recorded on Friday (July 24th), again with an increase of one new case, which now bring the tally in Longford to 288.

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Monaghan saw one new case recorded on Friday (July 31st) with its total now at 542.

Leitrim's last recorded case was last Wednesday (July 29th) when there was an increase of one new case - the county now has 84 cases.

Nationally, 46 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday, bringing the total number of cases in the Republic since the outbreak began to 26,208. There were no further deaths and the death toll remains at 1,763.

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85 per cent of yesterday's cases were in people under the age of 45. 32 are associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case, while five were identified as community transmission.

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