The rate of decrease in hospitalistions has stalled although there has been a "significant easing of pressure on the hospital system" due to the reduction in the number of people being treated for Covid-19, according to HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid.
Mr Reid said the Health Service Executive is "watching with some concern the daily case numbers" as there are signs they are no longer reducing at the rate that they had been in previous weeks. "This is our early warning signal that the brakes have been put on in the improvement we had been making in the previous few weeks." he told a HSE briefing.
Mr Reid said community testing demand has increased by 9% over the last week, and more than 101,000 swabs were taken. He said the this is the