How bad Covid is in each county as Ireland is put under Level 3 restrictions

The country will be officially placed under Level 3 restrictions from midnight after an announcement from Taoiseach Micheal Martin yesterday.

On Sunday night, the National Public Health Emergency Team made a shock recommendation that the country should be placed on a Level 5 lockdown.

But the Government moved to reject the advice and instead announced Level 3 restrictions nationwide.

Donegal and Dublin were both already under Level 3 measures following an continued spike in cases in the two counties.

But the new restrictions were introduced amid concerns over rising figures across the entire island.

While Dublin still remains the epicentre of the virus with the most cases, concerns have been raised about worrying trends in a number of other counties.

The incident rate per 100,000 is alarmingly high in counties like Donegal (233.1), Monaghan (172.7) and Roscommon (134.8).

This is compared to the national rate which sits at 100.9.

Here's a look at the incidence rate for each county across the country.

National - 100.9

Donegal - 233.1

Monaghan - 172.7

Dublin - 168.2

Roscommon - 134.8

Longford - 119.9

Cork - 97.1

Kildare - 80.0

Cavan - 78.8

Galway - 78.7

Clare - 76.6

Offaly - 74.4

Louth - 72.9

Wicklow - 70.9

Meath - 67.7

Westmeath - 63.1

Limerick - 45.2

Laois - 43.7

Kilkenny - 38.3

Waterford - 37.9

Carlow - 35.1

Wexford - 34.7

Tipperary - 32.0

Sligo - 29.0

Kerry - 26.4

Mayo - 24.5

Leitrim - 18.7.

Meanwhile, the number of cases here is now at 38,549 while the death toll still stands at 1,810.

On Monday a further 518 coronavirus cases were confirmed.

Limerick more than doubled its amount of new infections, from 24 on Sunday to 49 on Monday.

Meanwhile, Meath saw an alarming jump from just five new cases on Sunday to 32 new cases.

A county by county breakdown of cases as of October 3 is as follows.

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County by county breakdown of total number of cases and new ones announced as of October 3:

Carlow - 300 - +1

Cavan - 985 - +5

Clare - 643 - +17

Cork - 2,354 - +55

Donegal - 1,102 - +31

Dublin - 17,821 - +101

Galway - 837 - +23

Kerry - 436 - +10

Kildare - 2,663 - +6

Kilkenny - 483 - +6

Laois - 497 - +4

Leitrim - 122 - +3

Limerick - 1038 - +24

Longford - 377 - +2

Louth - 1,070 - +4

Mayo - 665 - +5

Meath - 1,115 - +5

Monaghan - 711 - +2

Offaly - 754 - +6

Roscommon - 490 - +13

Sligo - 204 - +14

Tipperary - 823 + 8

Waterford - 352 - +4

Westmeath - 798 - +2

Wexford - 422 - +4

Wicklow - 969 - +8.