Local electoral areas in Donegal record high Covid-19 figures



The rate of Covid-19 in the Buncrana local electoral area in Donegal is over seven times the national average.

 

Its 14-day incidence rate was 881 per 100,000 people on Monday – the highest in the country.

 

Dungarvan in Waterford is the next highest, at 771.

 

Carndonagh, also in Donegal, is the third worst, at 625.

 

 

Ireland has the fourth-highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in the EU – with only Cyprus, Portugal, and Spain faring worse.

 

The Republic’s 14-day rate is 121 per 100,000 people, with 534 new cases confirmed yesterday.

 

627 new cases were reported in the North yesterday – the highest since late January.

 

Donegal GP Denis McCauley, from the Irish Medical Organisation, fears the Republic’s rate could increase six-fold in the coming weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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