Belmullet in Mayo continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 in Ireland, more than three times the national average.
The incidence rate in Belmullet has more than tripled in the last week, up from 2,111 per 100,000 last Thursday.
The national incidence rate of the virus is currently 1,410 per 100,000 people.
This means that 1 in 17 people in the Belmullet local electoral had Covid-19 between December 29 and January 11th.
The latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) examine the 14-day incidence rate of Covid-19 up to January 11th in each of the State’s 166 electoral areas.
Dundalk south, Louth, has the second-highest rate of the virus at 3,782. There were 1,227 new cases among the local area population of 32,436.
The Adare-Rathkeale local electoral area in Limerick has the third-highest rate at 3,118 per 100,000 people.
Elsewhere, Tramore in Waterford has the fourth-highest rate of the virus spreading, with an incidence of 3,106, followed by the Ballybay-Clones local area in Co Monaghan, which had a rate of 3,054.
Other areas that recorded high incidence rates include Enniscorthy, Co Wexford (2,766 per 100,000 people), Carrickmacross-Castleblayney, Monaghan (2,682), Cork city southeast (2,452), and Milford, Donegal (2,439).
In Dublin, Tallaght central had the highest rate of the virus in Dublin, with 967 cases in a population of 43,215, giving an incidence rate of 2,237.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Dungarvan, Waterford, had the lowest rate of the virus over the last two weeks, with 101 cases across a population of 20,497, for an incidence rate of 492.
More information about each particular area can be found here.
