A further 581 Covid-19 cases were confirmed by the Department of Health today. Due to the HSE cyber hack, daily case numbers may change due to future data review, validation and update. The Commission said last week EU countries had ordered nearly 40 million additional doses of the vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson. “Based on available scientific evidence it appears the Delta variant may be up to twice as transmissible as the virus which we were dealing with this time last year,” Dr Glynn said. "While numbers in hospital remain low, we have seen a small but concerning increase in hospitalisations over the past week and we will be monitoring this closely in the weeks ahead,” Dr Glynn said.

Source: Irish Independent July 10, 2021 14:48 UTC