FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a face mask on St. Patrick's Day as public events were cancelled as the number of coronavirus cases grow around the world, in Dublin, Ireland, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland has seen a more than four-fold increase in coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes in the space of a week, prompting a number of new measures to protect vulnerable elderly residents, officials said on Friday.
Across the whole country, the rate of increase in infections has more than halved since a series of restrictions were put in place from mid March. Ireland reported 424 new cases on Friday, bringing the total to 3,849 with 120 related deaths.
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