Tony Holohan is getting a right grilling at his nightly press conference with journalists on testing, total number of cases, testing centres and other issues.

Good thread on the german number issue below. For the record I dont think the DoH were deliberately obfuscating, but rather being very technical. They did provide the no. of german results afterall. https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1248715223453794311

It does show however how these things can be very confusing. And people *do want* the overall figure of people who ate covid 19 positive. It may not be statisitically or clinically relevant for the HSE/DoH but the public want to know. And thats what matters.