The Chief Medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has produced a new graph which tells a different story about the number of daily deaths in Ireland from COVID 19 to date.
He explained that what the National Public Health Emergency Team reports on a daily basis, is the number of deaths notified to them on any particular day rather than the numbers who actually died on that day.
He said that it can take a few days or even longer before any particular death is actually notified to them. The new graph depicts the pattern of daily deaths that actually took place when the real timing of when the deaths occurred is accounted for.