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Ireland had one of the lowest coronavirus rates in Europe. It’s now highest in the world. Amanda Ferguson, Karla Adam © The Washington Post In the last weeks of 2020, Ireland had one of the lowest coronavirus cases per capita in the European Union. Today, it has the highest in the entire world. While countries across Europe battle a third wave, in Ireland, the trajectory in recent weeks isn’t just an upward curve: It’s the path of a rocket ship. Going into Christmas week, Ireland was reporting 10 new coronavirus cases each day per 100,000 residents compared with about 66 cases per 100,000 residents in the United States. But three weeks later, Ireland is reporting more than 132 new cases per 100,000, according to the latest seven-day rolling average compiled by Johns Hopkins University, while the United States has risen less dramatically, to about 75 cases per 100,000.

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