Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Sunday 7 March

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

1 death occurred in March and 1 in January. There is 1 death where the date of death is under investigation.

There has been a total of 4,422 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Saturday 6 March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 223,219* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 223,219 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 271 are men and 254 are women
• 74% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 31 years old
• 214 in Dublin, 37 in Meath, 28 in Offaly, 28 in Limerick and 25 in Wicklow and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 19 other counties

As of 8am today, 423 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 103 are in ICU. There have been 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of last Thursday (4 March), there have been 493,873 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 346,256 people have received their first dose
• 147,617 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.

• the 7 day incidence is 76.6
• the 5-day moving average is 520