Ireland's coronavirus recovery rate is continuing to rise as our top doctor said we had made "great progress" in the battle against the virus.
Dr Tony Holohan said that the Irish public had made "great progress", but added that he didn't expect a "significant additional change over the next number of days"
And the Chief Medical Officer revealed at a media briefing last night that 70% of all Covid-19 cases here had now fully recovered.
Dr Holohan said: “We estimate that as of Saturday 25 April 12,222 COVID-19 cases (64%) in the community have recovered.
"1,164 cases (6%) have been discharged from hospital which gives us a total recovery rate of 70%.”
The same statistic released last week stood at 70%.
There was also a welcome drop in the number of people in intensive care from 141 to 129.
However despite the good news, health chiefs are still set to advise the Government to keep the country in lockdown on Thursday.
Dr Holohan said that key figures still needed to drop “as low as possible” before Covid-19 restrictions could be eased.
He repeated if Wednesday was the May 5 deadline he would not have advised lifting restrictions.
“There are five or six days left until the fifth of May. We are going to wait until Friday to make the assessment, but we have become more and more clear that there is a concern about where we are at,” he said.
“We have limited the impact. We have never got above a thousand cases a day. We would have been predicting at earlier stages had we stayed on that path at the point at which schools closed we would have had tens of thousands of cases a day around this time.
“We have avoided that kind of scenario and no doubt that saved many lives.
“We are seeing falls in the numbers of cases and the number of deaths, but the most sensitive of the indicators that we track relate to hospitalisations and in particular admissions to intensive care and we haven’t seen continuing falls in relation to those.”
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