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Coronavirus: People will 'inevitably' be dying from COVID-19 again in weeks - McConkey

An infectious disease specialist says he believes people in Ireland will "inevitably" be dying from COVID-19 again in the next few weeks. Professor Sam McConkey is head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). His warning comes after 307 new cases were confirmed in Ireland on Tuesday. More than half of the confirmed cases were in Dublin, including 'at least 44' said to be community transmission cases. It brings the total number of confirmed cases to 30,080, and the death toll to 1,778. Prof McConkey told Ciara Kelly on Newstalk Breakfast: "I think that it's very, very foolish of anyone to think that this gradual, bit by bit ongoing increase that we've seen from mid-June until now is going to alter or change - and not just going to continue bit by bit, regular, steady increases of approximately 15 or 20% increase cases every week - that that's going to just continue unless we do something. "The thing that's worrying me is in the last nine days we're now seeing increased hospitalisations again, which we hadn't seen for June, July and August - but now there's people coming in sick to hospital. "Inevitably in a week or two that's going to continue to rise and there are going to be rising numbers in Intensive Care. "And then about two weeks after that, inevitably I believe there's going to be people dying from this again." Cover Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie