The chief medical officer says the rising number of Covid-19 patients in hospital is a ’cause for concern’.
The figure has risen by 38% over the past two weeks, and now stands at 54.
397 new cases were also reported yesterday.
Latest figures show that the 5 day moving average of cases in Donegal is 51 with 7 infectious cases at Letterkenny University Hospital.
Dr Tony Holohan says the recent increase in hospitalisations comes less than two weeks after cases started to rise.
Professor Gerry Killeen, a virus expert in UCC, and co-founder of I-SAG which advocates for Zero-Covid, says more restrictions are needed:
