Letters to the Editor: Vague info makes it impossible to track Covid-19 trends

Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan at a Covid -19 update press conference at the Department of Health on Monday, February 1, when 10 Covid-related deaths were reported. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The wild day-to-day variations in the reported number of Covid-19-related deaths reflects very poorly on the Department of Health’s recording system.

On February 1, the Department reported just 10 Covid-related deaths. The next day, this jumped to 101, which, according to Dr Tony Holohan, was “the highest number of deaths we have reported on any single day of the Covid-19 pandemic so far”.