Louth sees slight rise in Covid incidence rate
By Jason Newman
Published 21st Jul 2022, 14:33 GMT
Louth has registered 391 cases of Covid 19 in the past week to 16th July according to the latest weekly Covid report from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
The figures give Louth an incidence rate of 303.4 per 100,000, the 5th highest in the country and slightly up from the previous rate of 294.1 per 100,000 the week before.
Nationally, Laois, Offaly, Tipperary and Clare have the highest incidence rate and the lowest incidence rates are in counties Monaghan, Mayo, Cork and Longford.
The median age of those testing positive in Louth was 45.
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.