Galway Bay fm newsroom:
Galway City Central has been highlighted as a cause for concern with exceptionally high rates of Covid-19 infections.
The area that covers Eyre Square, Dangan, Newcastle, Rahoon, Shantalla, and Menlough now has one of the highest infection rates in the west.
Nationally, 508 new cases of the virus were recorded yesterday, with the latest figures showing 901 cases of coronavirus in Galway to date.
Lifford-Stranorlar in Donegal remains the local area with the highest rate of cases in the country.
Galway City Central has recorded 58 new cases of Covid-19 in the last two weeks.
The 14-day incidence rate in the area now stands at 217 per 100 thousand of population.
That's followed by Galway City East at 112 and Gort-Kinvara at 102.
Lifford-Stranorlar in Donegal has had the highest incidence rate for the past two weeks and has now stabilised at 602.6
It is followed by Granard in county Longford, which has a rate of 384.1.
Other areas which have a rate higher than 300 include the Monaghan electoral area, Kimmage-Rathmines, which has the highest level in Dublin and Carndonagh in Donegal, which two weeks ago had a rate of less than five
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