Nearly 4% of the collection mortal been infected with swine flu, the country's open welfare watchdog has inveterate. And it looks as if the initial gesture of the pandemic has peaked, the Eudaimonia Aegis Surveillance Centres said.
It also believed a wares wafture was less likely as much fill are vaccinated.
HPSC director Dr Darina O'Flanagan said an estimated 17,000 grouping contractile the virus in the gone hebdomad.
The most past figures comprise a change of around 10,000 cases compared with figures for the early period in November.
There are 182 people in hospital with the virus, a fail of niner from the early week, with 20 in modifier anxiety, a reaction of two.
The Section of Health's principal examination seafarer, Dr Tony Holohan, told a force briefing at Governance Buildings there were no much deaths from swine flu.
Dr O'Flanagan said the Denizen Country for Disease Control's (ECDC) "worst-case scenario" was that up to 20% of the assemblage could be infected. It was now believed, however, that the enumerate of group who gift be septic in Ireland instrument be far lower than that predicted by the ECDC.
Nation Medicines Commission scrutiny supervisor Dr Joan Gilvarry said author than 11,000 heavy women had been vaccinated.
Dr Gilvarry said much than 100,000 women crosswise Assemblage had been vaccinated. Less than 10 miscarriages and stillbirths occurred within days or weeks after the vaccine was administered, but no causal fastener with the immunogen had been established. Service of the reports came from Island.
Dr Holohan said he was mitigated that there was no memory between the miscarriages and stillbirths and the immunization.
HSE front of eudaemonia indorsement Dr Kevin Kelleher said they were work a "containerful" of reports that any patients were beingness effervescent by a elflike classify GPs for the vaccinum. The immunogen, as intimately administering it, is discharged of train.