Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 5 February
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 5 February 2021
- Last updated on: 8 February 2021
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 35 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
29 of these deaths occurred in February, and 6 occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 84 years and the age range is 63-96 years.
There has been a total of 3,621 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 4 February, the HPSC has been notified of 1,047 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 201,763* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 28 confirmed cases. The figure of 201,763 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 505 are men and 540 are women
- 58% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 38 years old
- 292 are in Dublin, 119 in Cork, 76 in Wexford, 60 in Limerick, 47 in Kildare and the remaining 453 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 2pm today, 1,221 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 181 are in ICU. There have been 51 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:
“No single intervention is perfect at preventing the spread of COVID-19, it takes many different individual actions to slow down the spread of the disease. Every action you take is another layer of protection between you and the virus - the more layers you have the more protection you have.
"Public health measures are based on this principle. Keep physical distance from others, wash hands regularly, avoid crowds, wear face coverings and vaccines all provide you with layers of defence against COVID-19."
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ENDS
Today's cases and incidence rates
- the 7-day incidence is 167.0
- the 5-day moving average is 1,062