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BREAKING: Covid-19 Christmas New Year surge highest in Portarlington Graiguecullen and jumps also in Portlaoise and Borris-Mountmellick areas
Third-wave sees virus rampant around Portarlington but appears to have steadied in Portlaoise while Borris Mountmellick at pandemic high
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Covid-19 spread rapidly in all parts of Laois during the Christmas New Year period with a four-fold increase showing in the Portarlington Graiguecullen, a more than doubling in the south and west of the county while the slowest rate of growth has occurred in Portlaoise.
The latest Local Electoral Area (LEA) published on January 8 breakdown on the Covid-19 Ireland data hub covers December 22 to January 4. They show that east and north of the county now has one of the highest spread of the disease nationally and is well above the average.