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An analysis of the 1,904 cases of COVID-19 in Ireland (as of Thursday 26 March 2020)
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 28 March 2020
- Last updated on: 24 September 2020
- Hospital statistics
- Gender of patients
- Age range affected
- How COVID-19 is spreading
- Healthcare workers
- Hospitalised cases by age group
- Cases by county
The National Public Health Emergency Team has done an analysis of the 1,904 cases notified as at midnight Thursday, 26 March 2020:
The data reveals:
- 53% are male and 46% are female, with 91 clusters involving 351 cases
- the median age of confirmed cases is 46 years
- 489 cases (26%) have been hospitalised
- of those hospitalised, 67 cases have been admitted to ICU
- 445 cases are associated with healthcare workers
- Dublin has the highest number of cases at 1070, (56% of all cases) followed by Cork with 184 cases (10%)
- of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 52%, close contact accounts for 23%, travel abroad accounts for 25%
Hospital statistics
| Total number of cases | 1904 | |
| Total number hospitalised | 489 | |
| Total number admitted to ICU | 67 | |
| Total number of deaths | 33 | |
| Case fatality rate | 1.7 | |
| Total number of healthcare workers | 445 | |
| Number clusters notified | 91 | |
| Median age | 46 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
Gender of patients
| Gender | Number | % of Total |
| Female | 888 | 47 |
| Male | 1010 | 53 |
| Unknown | 6 | 0 |
| Total | 1908 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
Age range affected
| Age Group | Number | % of Total |
| <1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1 - 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 5 - 14 | 25 | 1 |
| 15 - 24 | 136 | 7 |
| 25 - 34 | 358 | 19 |
| 35 - 44 | 353 | 19 |
| 45 - 54 | 368 | 19 |
| 55 - 64 | 271 | 14 |
| 65+ | 373 | 20 |
| Unknown | 6 | 0 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
How COVID-19 is spreading
| Community transmission | 25% |
| Close contact with confirmed case | 12% |
| Travel Abroad | 13% |
| Under investigation | 55% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
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 local transmission.
Healthcare workers
| Travel related | 85 |
| No foreign travel | 268 |
| Under investigation | 92 |
| Total | 445 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
Hospitalised cases by age group
| <5 | 3 | 1% |
| 5 - 14 | 3 | 1% |
| 15 - 24 | 18 | 4% |
| 25 - 34 | 48 | 10% |
| 35 - 44 | 45 | 9% |
| 45 - 54 | 85 | 17% |
| 55 - 64 | 76 | 16% |
| 65+ | 210 | 43% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
Cases by county
| Carlow | ≤5 | 0% |
| Cavan | 11 | 1% |
| Clare | 31 | 2% |
| Cork | 184 | 10% |
| Donegal | 15 | 1% |
| Dublin | 1070 | 56% |
| Galway | 63 | 3% |
| Kerry | 47 | 3% |
| Kildare | 56 | 3% |
| Kilkenny | 29 | 1% |
| Laois | 11 | 1% |
| Leitrim | ≤5 | 0% |
| Limerick | 46 | 2% |
| Longford | ≤5 | 0% |
| Louth | 27 | 2% |
| Mayo | 21 | 1% |
| Meath | 41 | 2% |
| Monaghan | 8 | 0% |
| Offaly | 22 | 1% |
| Roscommon | 8 | 0% |
| Sligo | 8 | 1% |
| Tipperary | 44 | 2% |
| Waterford | 29 | 2% |
| Westmeath | 52 | 3% |
| Wexford | 10 | 1% |
| Wicklow | 58 | 3% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
≤ means 'less than or equal to'.