DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland said on Friday that thousands more coronavirus cases had been reported in recent days as the system came under pressure, suggesting that the EU’s fastest growing outbreak was deteriorating even faster than figures showed. has.
More than 9,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have yet to be added to the official version of confirmed cases, the National Emergency Team for Public Health said. A day earlier, the number of positive tests that had not yet been registered was estimated at only 4,000.
Ireland had the lowest infection rate in the European Union just two weeks ago after the fastest decline, after shops and large parts of the hospitality sector were re-admitted for most of December.
A very large number of positive tests since Christmas have led to a delay in positive swabs being formally confirmed as new individual cases. Ireland formally reported a daily record of 1,754 confirmed cases on Friday, surpassing more than 1,500 daily cases for the fourth day in a row.
Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Edited by Peter Graff