Last month’s mica protest in Dublin, which was attended by thousands of Donegal residents, ‘may have’ contributed to the increase in the Delta variant in the county.
The Sunday Independent is reporting that Dr Denis McCauley, the chairman of IMO’s GP committee, believes the crowds that descended on the capital from Inishowen and Carndonagh “can’t but have had an effect” on rising cases in the northwest in the past two weeks.
However the Inishowen native, who now practices in Stranorlar, also suggested it may be “one of a number of factors”.
Recent figures showed Buncrana had a 14-day incidence rate of 608.1 per 100,000 while Carndonagh had the third-highest rate of infection at 489.3.
To read the full Sunday Independent report, by award-winning investigative journalist Rodney Edwards, click here.
