An infectious disease expert’s warning further deaths from Covid-19 are ‘inevitable’ as case numbers continue to rise.
A further 138 cases were recorded yesterday with less than five each in Carlow & Kilkenny.
There were no further deaths linked to the virus in the latest data, a trend that has continued for more than two weeks.
But Professor Sam McConkey from the Royal College of Surgeons says it’s clear the death toll will rise noting “Infection has been gradually growing we can all see the numbers growing not just 10 fold but now 15 or 20 fold from two months ago and there’s no reason that if we just keep doing what we have been doing the last few months that it will not continue to grow, what’s different in the last week is the R number for hospitalisations is now rapidly jumping up, almost to two at times, deaths haven’t started yet and that’s just inevitable”.
Meanwhile, Professor McConkey adds that the number of Covid-19 cases in certain counties is potentially more concerning than those in the Capital pointing out “So while Dublin looks big unfortunately Carlow is almost as bad, Kildare is actually higher per head of population still and Limerick is high & Tipperary is high and then several other counties are not far behind so it is actually spread widely through at least 23 or 24 of our 26 counties”.
