Coronavirus Ireland county-by-county: One of Ireland's smallest counties sees huge surge in cases

One of Ireland's smallest counties saw a huge surge in coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours.

Laois reported a further 19 cases in the latest update from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

The county has now seen a total of 305 Covid-19 cases.

Laois is one of Ireland's smallest counties with a population of just 84,000. Before today, only five counties had seen fewer infections than the Midlands county since the start of the pandemic here.

Meanwhile Dublin once again saw the biggest increase as 25 more infections were confirmed in the capital.

The latest county-by-county data covers the period up to midnight on Saturday, August 1.

It comes after another 46 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland on Monday evening.

However there were no new deaths.

It's the fourth day in a row without a virus-related death being recorded.

But the number of cases confirmed in the past week is double that recorded in the previous seven days.

Dr Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer. (Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin)

The total number of confirmed infections now stands 26,208 while the death toll remains at 1,763.

Here is the latest county-by-county data:

County	Number of cases	% of total	Change since yesterday
Carlow	179	0.7	No change
Cavan	876	3.3	No change
Clare	391	1.5	No change
Cork	1567	6	No change
Donegal	476	1.8	+2
Dublin	12549	48	+25
Galway	498	1.9	No change
Kerry	317	1.2	No change
Kildare	1603	6.1	+6
Kilkenny	357	1.4	No change
Laois	305	1.2	+19
Leitrim	84	0.3	No change
Limerick	609	2.3	No change
Longford	288	1.1	No change
Louth	794	3	No change
Mayo	583	2.2	No change
Meath	830	3.2	No change
Monaghan	542	2.1	No change
Offaly	492	1.9	+1
Roscommon	346	1.3	No change
Sligo	149	0.6	No change
Tipperary	545	2.1	No change
Waterford	166	0.6	No change
Westmeath	680	2.6	No change
Wexford	224	0.9	No change
Wicklow	712	2.7	No change