Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 2 April
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 2 April 2021
- Last updated on: 6 April 2021
Today's cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
4 deaths occurred in March, 4 in February.
The median age of those who died was 74 years and the age range was 51 - 94 years.
There has been a total of 4,713 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 1 April, the HPSC has been notified of 591 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 237,187* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 237,187 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 292 are men and 295 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 31 years old
- 288 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 30 in Meath, 28 in Westmeath, 27 in Laois and the remaining 178 cases are spread across 19 other counties
As of 8am today, 264 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 62 are in ICU. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Latest update on vaccines
As of last Tuesday (30 March), there have been 840,561 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
- 603,802 people have received their first dose
- 236,759 people have received their second dose
The COVID-19 data hub provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community including daily data on Ireland’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.
County-by-county cases
- the 7-day incidence rate is 81.6
- the 5-day moving average is 533