Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Wednesday 26 January
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 26 January 2022
- Last updated on: 27 January 2022
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5,605 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In addition, on Tuesday 25 January, 4,809* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
There has been a total of 6,136 deaths related to COVID-19 notified in Ireland. This includes 49 deaths newly notified in the past week (since last Wednesday).
As of 8am today, 739 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 74 are in ICU.
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Given the current high incidence, the daily case number is based on positive SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the HSE COVID Care Tracker the preceding day. These data are provisional. The HPSC and surveillance partners will continue to notify and process cases and outbreaks of COVID-19 on CIDR over this period.
- These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.