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Coronavirus: 7,836 new cases and 17 further deaths ‘Evidence of an increasing presence of the UK variant in Ireland,’ says chief medical officer
Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 09:18 Updated: Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 21:24
Ireland’s Covid-19 infection rate continued to soar out of control on Wednesday with the announcement of a further 7,836 cases and 17 deaths.
At the same time as Government was tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the spread, State chief medical officer Tony Holohan said the presence of the UK variant of the virus is also increasing.
As of midnight on Tuesday, the new figures brought total deaths in the Republic to 2,299 and infections to 121,154. More than one in five people tested for the virus are now positive.
Midlands Correspondent
One of the country s top Intensive Care doctors has said she does not want to see thousands of people returning to work in crowded offices in the years to come - because the Covid-19 pandemic has proven so many of them could work safely and comfortably from home.
Dr Catherine Motherway, who is past president of the Intensive Care Society, and head of the ICU at the Mid Western University Regional hospital in Limerick, said the country has seen thousands of people confined to their own homes because of the spread of the virus and they had shown they could very well adapt to working there - where the threat of infection was so much lower.