Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Sunday 14 February

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 17 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

15 of these deaths occurred in February and 1 in December. The date of 1 death is still under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 80 years and the age range was 50-92 years.

There has been a total of 3,948 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Saturday 13 February, the HPSC has been notified of 788 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 209,582* 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 209,582 cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 409 are men and 371 are women
• 71% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 31 years old
• 315 in Dublin, 61 in Galway, 59 in Meath, 42 in Louth, 33 in Kildare and the remaining 278 cases are spread across all other counties

As of 8am today, 899 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 160 are in ICU. There have been 34 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of Thursday 11 February, there have been 261,073 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 171,239 people have received their first dose
• 89,834 people have received their second dose

The COVID-19 Dashboard 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.

ENDS

• the 7 day incidence is 126.9
• the 5-day moving average is 932