Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 19 January
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 19 January 2021
- Last updated on: 21 January 2021
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 93 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today, 3 deaths occurred in December and 89 occurred in January. There is 1 death where the date of death is still under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 82 years and the age range was 41-99 years. There are no newly reported deaths in healthcare workers. There are no newly reported deaths in a young person under the age of 30.
There has been a total of 2,708* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 2,708 deaths reflects this.)
As of midnight Monday 18 January, the HPSC has been notified of 2,001 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 176,839* 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 176,839 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 892 are men and 1,098 are women
- 55% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 42 years old
- 701 in Dublin, 204 in Cork, 102 in Waterford, 98 in Meath, 90 in Donegal and the remaining 806 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 2pm today, 1,949 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 202 were in ICU at 11am. There have been 100 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said:
"While we are starting to see the early results of our collective efforts to minimise the transmission of the virus, we are very sadly reporting an additional 93 deaths today. We cannot afford to drop our guard against the very high levels of infection that remain in the community at present. COVID-19 ICU and hospitalisation numbers are of critical concern to us, representing a very significant pressure on our healthcare workers and on the provision of acute medical and surgical non-COVID care. We need everyone to stay at home, other than for essential reasons. The more that each individual follows this advice in their everyday lives, the more we can drive down the spread of COVID-19 and minimise the impact on vital healthcare services, patients and frontline workers."
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community. The dashboard also now includes information on total vaccines administered.
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Today’s cases and incidence rates
- the 7 day incidence rate is 2,758
- the 5 day moving average is 447.5