Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Thursday 27 August
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 27 August 2020
- Last updated on: 28 August 2020
There have been no new deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today. There has been a total of 1,777 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Wednesday 26 August, the HPSC has been notified of 93 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 28,453* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. (*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 3 confirmed cases. The figure of 28,453 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 52 are men and 41 are women
- 70% are under 45 years of age
- 73 are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case
- 12 cases have been identified as community transmission
- 34 are in Dublin, 7 in Kildare, 6 in Donegal, 6 in Laois, 5 in Limerick, 5 in Wexford and the remaining 30 cases are in Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wicklow
The HSE is working to identify any contacts the patients may have had to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread.
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said:
"We continue to see a slow growth of COVID-19 in Ireland.
"The most effective action we can take to reduce the transmission rate of this virus is to reduce our number of close contacts. If we do this and keep practising the other safe behaviours by continuing to physical distance, avoid crowds, wash our hands, cover our coughs and sneezes, wear a face mask where appropriate and download the COVID Tracker app, we have a real chance of slowing the spread of the virus to where we want it to be."
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said:
"The R-number is now between 1 and 1.2. While this is an improvement on what we have seen recently, it is still not where we want to be. We are still seeing growing transmission of the disease and we need to bring the R-number back below 1 if we are to effectively slow the spread of COVID-19 and suppress its transmission."
Dr. John Cuddihy, Director, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HSE said:
"We are identifying outbreaks in a number of different settings such as private homes, workplaces and social settings.
"Congregated settings are ideal environments for this disease to spread between people. We all must avoid such congregations if we are going to break the chains of transmission of the virus.”
ENDS
Hospital statistics
| Total number of cases | 28,360 |
| Total number hospitalised | 3,386 |
| Total number admitted to ICU | 444 |
| Total number of deaths | 1,519 |
| Total number of healthcare workers | 8,584 |
| Number clusters notified | 2,649 |
| Cases associated with clusters | 15,430 |
| Median age | 46 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.
Gender of patients
| Gender | Number of cases | % of total |
| Female | 15,937 | 56.2 |
| Male | 12,395 | 43.7 |
| Unknown | 28 | 0.1 |
| Total | 28,360 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.
Age range affected
| Age range | Number of cases |
| 0 - 4 | 281 |
| 5 - 14 | 528 |
| 15 - 24 | 2,503 |
| 25 - 34 | 4,953 |
| 35 - 44 | 4,964 |
| 45 - 54 | 4,982 |
| 55 - 64 | 3,475 |
| 65 - 74 | 1,922 |
| 75 - 84 | 2,342 |
| 85+ | 2,388 |
| Unknown | 22 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.
How COVID-19 is spreading
| Transmission classification | % |
| Community transmission | 30.3 |
| Close contact with confirmed case | 66.4 |
| Travel abroad | 2.4 |
| Unknown | 0.8 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.
Note:
In the event that a person tests positive for COVID-19 and hasn't been abroad or had 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 | 25 |
| 5 - 14 | 18 |
| 15 - 24 | 79 |
| 25 - 34 | 204 |
| 35 - 44 | 278 |
| 45 - 54 | 454 |
| 55 - 64 | 502 |
| 65 - 74 | 596 |
| 75 - 84 | 751 |
| 85+ | 478 |
| Unknown | 1 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.
Cases by county
Note: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre have advised that in the process of validating data and reviewing addresses, county totals may change due to cases being reassigned to another county. Totals can go up or down.
| County | Number of cases | % of total | Change since the day before |
| Carlow | 236 | 0.8 | +13 |
| Cavan | 886 | 3.1 | No change |
| Clare | 451 | 1.6 | No change |
| Cork | 1,629 | 5.7 | +9 |
| Donegal | 517 | 1.8 | No change |
| Dublin | 13,187 | 46.5 | +92 |
| Galway | 513 | 1.8 | +2 |
| Kerry | 325 | 1.2 | No change |
| Kildare | 2,216 | 7.8 | +21 |
| Kilkenny | 397 | 1.4 | +2 |
| Laois | 377 | 1.3 | No change |
| Leitrim | 85 | 0.3 | No change |
| Limerick | 713 | 2.5 | +4 |
| Longford | 292 | 1 | No change |
| Louth | 821 | 2.9 | +1 |
| Mayo | 587 | 2.1 | No change |
| Meath | 884 | 3.1 | No change |
| Monaghan | 556 | 2 | No change |
| Offaly | 620 | 2.2 | +1 |
| Roscommon | 354 | 1.3 | +1 |
| Sligo | 156 | 0.6 | No change |
| Tipperary | 678 | 2.4 | +9 |
| Waterford | 187 | 0.7 | +6 |
| Westmeath | 684 | 2.4 | No change |
| Wexford | 273 | 1 | No change |
| Wicklow | 736 | 2.6 | No change |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 25 August.