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Covid-19: One fifth of Cork cases linked to pubs and restaurants

Covid-19: One fifth of Cork cases linked to pubs and restaurants

The Acting Chief Medical Officer has raised concerns over "fast increasing" trends of coronavirus in a number of counties.

One of them is Cork, where a fifth of cases in the past two weeks have been linked to pubs and restaurants.

While in Galway, there's been a large cluster following a house party attended by young people.

390 new cases of Covid 19 were confirmed last night and no further deaths.

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Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn says there are some areas he will be keeping a close eye on.

He said: "Unfortunately we're seeing particularly fast increasing incidence [of Covid-19 infection] in a number of counties. I want to highlight Cork and Galway, which we've been doing now for about a week, but also Monaghan and Roscommon, because their overall population sizes are lower, their incidences can rise very quickly with a relatively small number of cases but that said, they do stand out for the speed of which the situation there is deteriorating."

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