Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Thursday 18 February
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 18 February 2021
- Last updated on: 19 February 2021
- Today's cases
- Numbers of people vaccinated
- County-by-county cases and incidence rates
- Slides from press conference
Today's cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 47 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
44 of these deaths occurred in February, 2 occurred in January and 1 in December.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 51 - 99 years.
There has been a total of 4,082* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 4,082 deaths reflects this.)
As of midnight Wednesday 17 February, the HPSC has been notified of 901 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 212,647* * confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(* *Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 212,647 cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 473 are men and 422 are women
- 65% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 36 years old
- 437 in Dublin, 49 in Limerick, 43 in Galway, 39 in Kildare, 32 in Meath and the remaining 301 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 8am today, 771 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 151 are in ICU. There have been 48 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Numbers of people vaccinated
As of Monday 15 February, there have been 280,581 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
- 182,193 people have received their first dose
- 98,388 people have received their second dose
The COVID-19 Dashboard 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.
ENDS
County-by-county cases and incidence rates
- the 7-day incidence is 123.9
- the 5-day moving average is 780