Press release
Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Thursday 20 January
From Department of Health
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From Department of Health
Published on
Last updated on
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5,523 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In addition, on Wednesday 19 January, 5,048* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
As of 8am today, 896 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 90 are in ICU.
Statistics on booster vaccinations are now available on the COVID-19 data hub.
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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.