The Department has reported no further coronavirus-related deaths.
"Given the current epidemiological situation" NPHET does not feel we are in a position to reopen pubs at this point, Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr @ronan_glynn says | https://t.co/Gekk9gtIB2 pic.twitter.com/AdN7sjbZoe 73 are associated with outbreaks or area close contacts of a confirmed case and 12 cases are reported as community transmission.
He said the "level of disease continues to grow" and that "outbreaks are coming under control but disease is spreading in these outbreaks"."The most effective action we can take to reduce the transmission rate of this virus is to reduce our number of close contacts.""We want as much of society as possible to open up" but people must work together to achieve this, he added.
He said a number of weeks ago there were fewer than 100 cases per week but this has risen to more than 700 per week, with an average of 120 cases per day. "We're all going to have to ration the number of people we meet" and "we need to starve this virus of the opportunity to transmit," he added.In Northern Ireland, 69 new cases were reported by the Department of Health today, bringing the total number of cases there to 6,964.Earlier, the department said that the coronavirus R number is between 1.0 and 1.6.
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