COVID-19: Illustrating the whole island

Trying to piece together data from two jurisdictions brings its challenges. Currently gov.ie are publishing the number of cases in the Republic every day – broken down for each of the 26 counties.

In the North hscni.net are publishing similar data for each of the 11 councils.

It’s clear that Dublin has by far the highest number of cases – more than 7 times that of Belfast or Cork, however because it’s the most populous area this probably to be expected.

Let’s have a look at how this compares when we take population into account.

Dublin still has the highest number of cases per 100k people. It’s probably not a surprise that city-living increases your chances of catching this virus but this doesn’t explain why the numbers are so high in Westmeath or Cavan.

It’s worth having a look at how the number of cases for each area have increased over time.

Here you can see a step increase in both Monaghan and Cavan. This comes just as it emerges that there has been an outbreak at Cavan General Hospital. See story here

Of course, one of the biggest issues with comparing these numbers across the border is the differing testing rates. ROI is testing at a much higher rate than NI – meaning that it’s likely ROI will havide identified many more cases.

Trying to piece together data from two jurisdictions brings its challenges. Currently gov.ie are publishing the number of cases in the Republic every day – broken down for each of the 26 counties. In the North hscni.net are publishing similar data for each of the 11 councils. It’s clear that Dublin has by far the…

Trying to piece together data from two jurisdictions brings its challenges. Currently gov.ie are publishing the number of cases in the Republic every day – broken down for each of the 26 counties. In the North hscni.net are publishing similar data for each of the 11 councils. It’s clear that Dublin has by far the…