Eire has recorded 56 new conditions of Covid-19 as of midnight on Sunday. 

There is now a complete of 27,313 confirmed circumstances of Covid-19 in Ireland.

There ended up no new fatalities claimed to the Overall health Protection Surveillance Centre yesterday, that means there continues to be a complete of 1,774 Covid-19 associated fatalities in Ireland.

Of the new cases notified yesterday, 29 are males and 27 are girls. Seventy-9 % are under-45-a long time- outdated.

Thirty-5 are verified to be connected with outbreaks, or are near contacts of a verified case.

Twelve circumstances have been determined as community transmission, that means they have been not linked to a verified circumstance or distribute. 

Twenty-6 of the new situations are in Kildare, 13 in Dublin, and the relaxation of the 17 circumstances are in Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Laois, Longford, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Westmeath, and Wicklow.

The HSE say they are functioning to establish any contacts the patients may have had, to offer them with info and tips to reduce further more distribute of the virus.

The National General public Wellness Unexpected emergency Workforce fulfilled yesterday evening to look at further more suggestions to present to the Authorities.

There is apprehension that there will be even further localised lock downs introduced, with Offaly, Laois, and Kildare just more than halfway through their two-7 days lock down.

These counties were place beneath restrictions on August 8, after a selection of Covid-19 clusters broke out in meat processing plants.

In the meantime, there are nonetheless 232,400 people today in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment.

€72.2m is becoming paid out in PUP payments these days, to individuals who have shed their jobs or whose workplaces are even now shut because of to Covid-19. 

This represents a minimize of 30,100 when in contrast to the 262,500 individuals who ended up paid previous week. 

Overall, the variety of people obtaining the payment has dropped by 61%, considering that the peak of 598,000 on May perhaps 5. 

The sectors which noticed the most workers return to operate this week were lodging and food stuff solutions wholesale and retail trade, mend of motor motor vehicles and motorcycles and design.

The most significant cohort returning to do the job is the below-25 age team.

The Office of Social Safety also reduce off PUP payments to just about 28,000 individuals who did not validate the eligibility for the payment on time.

The deadline to affirm was Friday, August 14, with the the greater part confirming their eligibility. 

At the beginning of previous 7 days, there ended up approximately 29,000 people who had not verified their payments, inspite of getting acquired notifications on four individual instances, the last one remaining in the week ending August 9.

Extra than 1,000 people did confirm their ongoing eligibility by the deadline very last Friday, and they will continue to get their payment. 

The remainder will not acquire a payment currently as their PUP assert stays closed.

Even so, any individual who has experienced their payment reduce off and is still entitled to the PUP can re-register applying www.mywelfare.ie.