Health experts have been told to exclude Covid-positive patients from daily case figures if they are not in hospital because of the viral infection. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, the minister in charge of enterprise, trade and employment, wants more accurate figures from Nphet on Covid-19 hospitalisations as the highly-infectious Delta variant is monitored. The letter suggests the daily data should only reflect people who go to hospital because of Covid-19. Ministers privately believe at least 10pc of Covid-19 patients are unaffected by serious symptoms, with a senior Government source telling the Irish Independent: “We don’t know the actual level. Mr Varadkar said some people were in hospital “because their appendix burst or they broke a leg, or they’re in for a knee op.

Source: Irish Independent July 26, 2021 01:33 UTC