Galway city centre records highest rate of Covid-19 in the State Fourteen-day incidence rate in the city is three-and-a-half times national average
Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 20:48 Brian Hutton
The centre of Galway city has the highest rate of Covid-19 in the State , according to latest official figures.
The 14-day incidence rate in the city is three-and-a-half times the national average. It is also more than 27 times worse than the area of the country with the lowest rate , Killaloe, in Co Clare, according to official local electoral area statistics released on Thursday night .
The 14-day rate per 100,000 population is seen as a useful measure of how the virus is spreading, and the Government tracks it across the country’s 166 local electoral areas.
âThey are particularly appealing to those with camera footage from the area at the time of the incident â including dash-cam and mobile phone footage â to make it available to them.
Gardaà believe at least five shots were fired during the attack and were still trying to establish an exact motive, though they believe it was linked to a local dispute. It was unclear how the killer or killers arrived at the crime scene and fled after the killing. The murder was being investigated by Ballymun gardaÃ. The scene of the shooting on Belclare Drive, Ballymun, Dublin 9 on Friday morning. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy