Advertisement

Readers like you keep news free for everyone.

More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

Support us today
Not now
Friday 31 March 2023 Dublin: 9°C

# R number

All time
# reproductive rate
R number drops to between 0.5 and 0.8 - but NPHET warns this will be 'really difficult to sustain'
Health officials have regularly sought to get the reproductive number below 1.
26.0k
26
Jan 21st 2021, 7:09 PM
# third wave
'Stay at home, stop socialising': Ireland 'clearly' in third wave of pandemic, Philip Nolan says
The CMO Dr Tony Holohan said this wave is “happening much, much sooner after the last one”.
70.0k
81
Dec 21st 2020, 6:34 PM
# level 5 to 3
NPHET warned R number would be impacted if hospitality and home visits were allowed
It said that “the disease trajectory could once again turn quite quickly” in Ireland.
26.4k
63
Nov 27th 2020, 8:43 PM
# R number
Health Minister says R number has dropped again to between 0.7 and 0.9
The minister said there has been a 40% fall in demand for testing in the past week.
36.0k
59
Updated
Nov 4th 2020, 7:00 PM
# On the rise
Coronavirus cases rise across UK as R number creeps above 1
According to government advisers, the last time R was above 1 in the UK was in early March.
22.6k
18
Sep 11th 2020, 9:50 PM
# Coronavirus
Ireland's R number is now between 0.7 and 1.4, Health Minister says
Stephen Donnelly said public health officials are saying “we are going to have a second surge” based on worldwide evidence.
54.2k
98
Jul 24th 2020, 1:28 PM
# Stephen Donnelly
Health Minister: 'If the R-rate continues at 1.8 for three weeks, we could have 150 cases a day'
Donnelly also said that from a disease perspective, gastro pubs are seen as restaurants.
75.7k
152
Jul 16th 2020, 9:27 AM
# R number
UK infection rate increases as over 41,000 now confirmed dead from disease
The UK’s R number is between 0.7-1.0.
39.8k
50
May 15th 2020, 6:24 PM