One thing to add to this thread: I’m told there is also an IT limitation in the software, so that even if the public health teams were fully resourced and/or the data input was totally automated and seamless, there would be a ceiling of around 2,000 cases per day. https://twitter.com/laineydoyle/status/1345168253019156482

If that’s the case, the backlog of 9,000 is likely to get continually larger and larger - and the number of daily positive swabs (which historically runs roughly 10% higher than the number of positive cases) will be a truer illustration of #covid19ireland for the coming days.

There’s a very commendable response in the replies here from people offering to hodge-podge an IT system together to overcome this, but that overlooks the bigger problem @laineydoyle makes in the quoted thread: there aren’t enough public health personnel to input any more cases