Press release

Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Sunday 10 January

From: Department of Health
Published on: 10 January 2021
Last updated on: 12 January 2021

Hospital statistics
Gender of patients
Age range affected
How COVID-19 is spreading
Hospitalised cases by age group
Cases by county

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

There has been a total of 2,344 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Saturday 9 January, the HPSC has been notified of 6,888 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 147,613* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 147,613 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

3,252 are men and 3,595 are women
60% are under 45 years of age
the median age is 38 years old
2,088 in Dublin, 862 in Cork, 469 in Limerick, 405 in Wexford, 320 in Waterford and the remaining 2,744 cases are spread across all other counties

As of 2pm today, 1,452 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 125 are in ICU. There have been 100 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.

ENDS

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 9 January 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County	Today’s Cases (to midnight 9/1/21)	14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population (14 days to midnight 9/1/21)	New Cases during last 14 days (14 days to midnight 9/1/21)
Ireland	6,888	1291.2	61,484
Monaghan	140	2525.0	1,550
Louth	263	2201.2	2,837
Limerick	469	1878.4	3,661
Waterford	320	1644.9	1,911
Cavan	89	1483.4	1,130
Dublin	2,088	1477.4	19,906
Wexford	405	1436.0	2,150
Donegal	196	1409.0	2,243
Clare	208	1357.5	1,613
Cork	862	1340.7	7,278
Carlow	107	1299.8	740
Mayo	95	1168.5	1,525
Kilkenny	163	1160.9	1,152
Meath	216	1138.7	2,221
Sligo	43	1132.2	742
Kerry	192	1065.6	1,574
Kildare	238	971.2	2,161
Longford	43	902.8	369
Offaly	62	894.0	697
Laois	105	843.0	714
Tipperary	239	775.3	1,237
Galway	140	735.5	1,898
Roscommon	16	725.1	468
Leitrim	20	705.3	226
Westmeath	54	690.5	613
Wicklow	115	609.4	868

the 7-day incidence is 960.3
the 5-day moving average is 6,861

Hospital statistics

Total number of cases	140,725
Total number hospitalised	7,103
Total number admitted to ICU	760
Total number of deaths	2,083
Total number of healthcare workers	13,531
Number clusters notified	10,984
Cases associated with clusters	46,289
Median age	37

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

Gender of patients

Gender	Number of cases
Male	66,916
Female	73,617
Unknown	192
Total	140,725

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

Age range affected

Age range	Number of cases
0 - 4	3,547
5 - 14	8,795
15 - 24	25,867
25 - 34	25,563
35 - 44	22,199
45 - 54	20,926
55 - 64	15,963
65 - 74	7,836
75 - 84	5,620
85+	4,371
Unknown	38

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

How COVID-19 is spreading

Transmission classification	%
Community transmission	48.6
Close contact with confirmed case	41.1
Travel abroad	0.8
Unknown	9.5

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

Note:

When a person tests positive for COVID-19 but hasn't been abroad or had a known contact with another confirmed case in Ireland, that's known as community transmission.

In the event that a person who tests positive for COVID-19 can be linked to another confirmed case in Ireland, that's known as close contact.

Hospitalised cases by age group

Age range	Number of cases
0 - 4	77
5 - 14	70
15 - 24	275
25 - 34	478
35 - 44	564
45 - 54	866
55 - 64	993
65 - 74	1,277
75 - 84	1,534
85+	967
Unknown	2

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

Cases by county

County	Number of cases
Carlow	1,477
Cavan	3,455
Clare	3,076
Cork	13,818
Donegal	6,023
Dublin	49,404
Galway	4,874
Kerry	3,111
Kildare	6,509
Kilkenny	2,468
Laois	1,836
Leitrim	501
Limerick	6,831
Longford	1,068
Louth	5,323
Mayo	3,177
Meath	5,861
Monaghan	2,907
Offaly	1,914
Roscommon	1,483
Sligo	1,600
Tipperary	2,794
Waterford	2,893
Westmeath	2,203
Wexford	3,520
Wicklow	2,599

All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 8 January.

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