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Ireland has successfully “flattened the curve” of coronavirus transmission and no longer expects a peak in infections, chief medical officer Tony Holohan said. “We think we’ve flattened that […] curve so much that there is no peak,” he said on RTE’s Late Late show on Friday. “We think we can go along at a low level and reduce it even further.”
He said nationwide adherence to a lockdown – imposed until 5 May – had “already saved hundreds of lives and admissions to intensive care”. There have been 530 Covid-19 related deaths and 13,980 confirmed cases of the virus in Ireland according to department of health figures released Friday.
The world’s 1.8bn Muslims are facing the most important period of the Islamic year, the holy month of Ramadan, which starts this week, under lockdown because of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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