The public should be wary of “assuming” people with foreign accents were tourists visiting the country from abroad, the State’s acting chief medical officer has said. There was also concern that growing numbers of people identified as close contacts of confirmed cases were refusing to present for testing. “We know a significant portion of people who have been identified as contacts are not coming forward for testing,” Dr Glynn said. The median age of the 165 confirmed cases in the last two weeks was 31, with just under half of those occurring in Dublin. The department also recorded 16 new cases of Covid-19 in the North, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 5,788.

Source: The Irish Times July 13, 2020 16:56 UTC