The last few days have seen a slew of new information on Covid-19 come into the public domain. We entered into this period “mid-table in Europe in terms of disease incidence”, Nphet told the Government in last week’s letter. Nphet and the EY report both attribute declines in the level of disease to a combination of the two. R numberThe hope was that the all-important R number, which gauges the speed of infection, could be brought to 0.5 for much of the lockdown period. The modelling is based on a starting point of fewer than 100 cases per day.

Source: The Irish Times November 29, 2020 20:03 UTC