Louth registers just 77 Covid cases last week
By Jason Newman
Published 21st Aug 2022, 15:33 GMT
Louth has registered 77 cases of Covid 19 in the past week to 13th August according to the latest weekly Covid report from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
The figures give Louth an incidence rate of 59.7 per 100,000, one of the lowest in the country and significantly down from the previous rate of 114.8 per 100,000 the week before.
Nationally, Weastmeath, Kilkenny and Tipperary have the highest incidence rate and the lowest incidence rates are in counties Dublin, Wicklow and Monaghan.
The median age of those testing positive in Louth was 47.
The figures come with the proviso that they do not account for home antigen tests recorded as positive on the HSE website and only include positive PCR tests.