No new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Co Clare.
Nationally, 84 further positive tests have been reported to the Department of Health, none of which are located in the Banner County.
Detail from the Department of Health has outlined that the cases are based in Dublin (51), Offaly (6), Kildare (5) with the remaining 22 in Cork, Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Meath, Roscommon, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wicklow.
Three more people have died as a result of the virus. Over the past six months 1,781 people have died in the country from COVID-19.
Speaking on Wednesday, Dr Ronan Glynn said a “concerning pattern” relating to the virus in Dublin was emerging.
Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE, said; “The greatest risk of transmission to school children is in the home setting. International experience reveals that reopening of schools has not been associated with significantly increasing community transmission. Instead, it is transmission of virus within communities that poses the greatest threat to schools”.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group noted that the reproduction number is now close to 1.0.
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