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New data shows pace of falling Covid rates among pupils
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The HSE published data on its website today which revealed that the current positivity rate among primary school age children is significantly higher than that of last May, before the Delta variant became the dominant one.
It is 5.8%, compared to around 2% recorded before schools broke for the summer. But additional data obtained by RTÉ News from the HSE this evening shows that the rate was even higher still four weeks ago when schools first reopened.
Encouragingly, this additional data shows that the rate has been falling steadily since then. These new figures show that in the last week of August, the positivity rate among primary school age children was a whopping 14.5%.
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