Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Saturday 20 March
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 20 March 2021
- Last updated on: 22 March 2021
Today's cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
7 deaths occurred in March, and 2 deaths occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 76 years and the age range was 64 – 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,585 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Friday 19 March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 229,831 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 255 are men and 265 are women
- 68% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 34 years old
- 266 in Dublin, 33 in Meath, 29 in Wexford, 25 in Offaly, 24 in Donegal, and the remaining 148 cases are spread across 19 other counties
As of 8am today, 328 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 83 are in ICU. There have been 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Latest update on vaccines
As of last Wednesday (17 March), there have been 639,586 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
- 468,328 people have received their first dose
- 171,258 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 72.9
- the 5-day moving average is 503