The belated disclosure of more than 200 positive Covid-19 cases at the Mater hospital arose from a “data uploading issue”, according to the HSE. However, the staff data could not be uploaded to the CIDR system used by the HSE for disease surveillance because personal details were anonymised. It then resumed filing the staff data last week, when the 244 cases were bulk reported. Numbers of new Covid-19 cases peaked on April 15th, when 1,068 new cases were reported. The number of new cases each day has been below 200 for the last week, with the exception of May 13th, when 426 cases were recorded, though most of them were the historical cases from the Mater hospital.

Source: The Irish Times May 17, 2020 12:46 UTC