CSO: Kildare, Laois and Offaly account for two-thirds of last week's Covid-19 cases

The CSO found that there were 509 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the week up to Friday, August 7, an increase of 77% on the previous week. File picture: PA

New data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the number of coronavirus cases in Ireland last week went up by more than three-quarters from the previous week.

The CSO found that there were 509 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the week up to Friday, August 7, an increase of 224 cases, or 77%, from the previous week.