China News Service, March 5. According to the CNN, the Irish government announced on the 4th that four people from the same family were tested positive for the new crown pneumonia virus, and the total number of people infected in the country rose to six.

Four patients were reported to be two men and two women.

"There is still no evidence that Ireland has seen widespread or sustained community spread similar to some other EU countries," Ronan Glynn, deputy chief medical officer of the Irish Ministry of Health, said in a statement on the 4th.