Health officials have reported a record 101 deaths from Covid 19 today.
The number of cases of coronavirus recorded is 879, the lowest number of daily cases so far this year.
383 of the cases are in Dublin, 79 in Cork, 53 in Galway, 40 in Limerick, 43 in Meath and the remaining 290 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
1,388 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 207 are in ICU.
One of the 101 people in today’s Covid fatalities was 19 years of age.
— Shane Beatty 🎙 (@ShaneBeattyNews) February 2, 2021
The Chief Medical Officer says the country needs to go further in pushing back the virus.
Dr. Tony Holohan says; “This is the highest number of deaths we have reported on any single day of the COVID-19 pandemic so far."
"The high mortality we are experiencing as a country at the moment is related to the surge of infection we saw several weeks ago, and the hospitalisations and admissions to ICU that followed as a direct result."
“Although we have seen great improvement in the level of infection being reported, we have a long way to go and incidence needs to decline much further."
"The best way to honour those who have died from COVID-19, and those who loved them or provided care for them, is to follow the public health advice."
"Stay at home unless absolutely necessary, and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do the same."
“What we can have control over today is the outlook of this disease in the weeks to come."
"Your positive actions matter, and they add up at a collective level. Please keep it up.”
