Press release

Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Saturday 17 October

From: Department of Health
Published on: 17 October 2020
Last updated on: 19 October 2020

Hospital statistics
Gender of patients
Age range affected
How COVID-19 is spreading
Hospitalised cases by age group
Cases by county

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

Of these, 1 occurred in June, 2 in September and 5 in October.

There has been a total of 1,849 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Friday 16 October, the HPSC has been notified of 1,276 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 48,678 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

644 are men / 631 are women
69% are under 45 years of age
the median age is 31 years old
278 in Dublin, 149 in Cork, 108 in Meath, 107 in Galway, 80 in Wexford, and the remaining 554 cases are spread across 21 counties

As of 2pm today, 260 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 30 are in ICU. There have been 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.

ENDS

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 16 October 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County	Today’s Cases (to midnight 16/10/20)	14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population (14 days to midnight 16/10/20)	New Cases during last 14 days (14 days to midnight 16/10/20)	5 day moving average
NATIONAL	1,276	231.6	11,028	1,072
Cavan	27	758.8	578	64.2
Meath	108	450.2	878	112
Donegal	43	356.2	567	35.4
Monaghan	<5	350.2	215	12.8
Clare	31	320.7	381	25.4
Sligo	15	303.7	199	19
Galway	107	262.7	678	73.6
Cork	149	256	1,390	133.8
Westmeath	41	252.3	224	22.2
Wexford	80	250.5	375	43.6
Limerick	76	231.9	452	41.2
Leitrim	<5	218.4	70	6.6
Longford	18	212.9	87	8.4
Kildare	53	207.6	462	44.8
Dublin	278	201.8	2,719	248.2
Roscommon	9	199.9	129	9.6
Kerry	55	198.4	293	33.2
Louth	18	185.4	239	25
Offaly	38	178.3	139	12
Laois	13	151.1	128	12
Kilkenny	24	142.1	141	15.4
Mayo	16	131	171	17.6
Waterford	28	130.8	152	18.4
Carlow	5	115.9	66	8.4
Wicklow	26	102.5	146	15.4
Tipperary	16	93.4	149	13.8

Hospital statistics

Total number of cases	47,402
Total number hospitalised	3,956
Total number admitted to ICU	510
Total number of deaths	1,592
Total number of healthcare workers	9,870
Number clusters notified	5,423
Cases associated with clusters	24,792
Median age	41

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

Gender of patients

Gender	Number of cases	Change since the day before
Female	25,439	+508
Male	21,917	+467
Unknown	46	No change
Total	47,402	+975

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

Age range affected

Age range	Number of cases	Change since the day before
0 - 4	848	+39
5 - 14	1,953	+93
15 - 24	7,408	+260
25 - 34	8,337	+153
35 - 44	7,709	+154
45 - 54	7,490	+121
55 - 64	5,303	+99
65 - 74	2,862	+40
75 - 84	2,818	+13
85+	2,648	+5
Unknown	26	-2

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

How COVID-19 is spreading

Transmission classification	%
Community transmission	27.1
Close contact with confirmed case	65.3
Travel abroad	1.9
Unknown	5.7

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

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 close contact.

Hospitalised cases by age group

Age range	Number of cases	Change since the day before
0 - 4	41	No change
5 - 14	31	No change
15 - 24	118	No change
25 - 34	253	+3
35 - 44	319	+4
45 - 54	520	+2
55 - 64	591	+3
65 - 74	696	+4
75 - 84	855	+4
85+	530	No change
Unknown	2	No change

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

Cases by county

Note: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre have advised that in the process of validating data and reviewing addresses, county totals may change due to cases being reassigned to another county. Totals can go up or down.

County	Number of cases	Change since the day before
Carlow	360	+21
Cavan	1,532	+81
Clare	976	+12
Cork	3,540	+87
Donegal	1,594	+32
Dublin	20,145	+232
Galway	1,384	+75
Kerry	662	+8
Kildare	3,067	+32
Kilkenny	594	+23
Laois	608	+8
Leitrim	188	+18
Limerick	1,389	+22
Longford	444	+2
Louth	1,287	+33
Mayo	815	+26
Meath	1,883	+102
Monaghan	923	+15
Offaly	848	No change
Roscommon	598	+7
Sligo	374	+34
Tipperary	947	+22
Waterford	472	+32
Westmeath	978	+3
Wexford	713	+28
Wicklow	1,081	+20

All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 15 October.

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