The latest data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre shows a further reduction in the 14-day incidence of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Data compiled up to 1 September puts the 14-day incidence at 491 cases for every 100,000 people. Under its most recent optimistic projections, NPHET suggested that daily cases numbers could reach 3,000 a day, by the middle of this month.
The latest HPSC report puts the average daily case numbers for the two weeks to 1 September at 1,670. NPHET also projected up to 700 hospitalisations and 130 patients in ICU by the middle of September.
As of this morning, there were 394 with the virus in hospitals, an increase of 22 on the same time yesterday. Of these, 59 patients were in intensive care units. Latest