Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 6 April

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

3 of these deaths occurred in January, 2 in February, 3 in March and 1 in April.

There has been a total of 4,727 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Monday 5 April, the HPSC has been notified of 443 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 238,907* 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 238,907 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 239 are men and 203 are women
• 75% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 31 years old
• 208 in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 142 spread across 19 other counties

As of 8am today, 261 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 60 are in ICU. There have been 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of last Saturday (3 April) 932,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 660,800 people have received their first dose
• 271,524 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 rate is 73.2
• the 5-day moving average is 463