Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 9 March
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 30 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
12 deaths occurred in March, 13 in February, 4 in January and 1 is under investigation.
There has been a total of 4,452 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Monday 8 March, the HPSC has been notified of 311 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 223,957* 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 223,957 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 397 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 95 are in ICU. There have been 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Saturday (6 March), there have been 523,069 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
The COVID-19 data hub 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.
County | Today's cases (to midnight 8/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 311 | 466 | 161.3 | 7,683 |
Longford | <5 | 9 | 403.7 | 165 |
Offaly | 10 | 15 | 330.9 | 258 |
Westmeath | 9 | 9 | 243.3 | 216 |
Dublin | 135 | 211 | 235.3 | 3,170 |
Meath | 12 | 27 | 212.8 | 415 |
Limerick | 18 | 21 | 205.7 | 401 |
Louth | 14 | 14 | 204.1 | 263 |
Kildare | 29 | 24 | 171.2 | 381 |
Laois | <5 | 6 | 157 | 133 |
Mayo | 10 | 12 | 150.9 | 197 |
Carlow | <5 | 4 | 149.3 | 85 |
Donegal | 0 | 11 | 148.2 | 236 |
Galway | 12 | 16 | 142.2 | 367 |
Tipperary | <5 | 13 | 134.8 | 215 |
Clare | <5 | 5 | 108.6 | 129 |
Monaghan | 0 | 4 | 105.9 | 65 |
Waterford | 8 | 6 | 97.3 | 113 |
Roscommon | <5 | 3 | 91.4 | 59 |
Cavan | 0 | 3 | 90.6 | 69 |
Wicklow | <5 | 11 | 90.6 | 129 |
Sligo | 0 | 4 | 74.8 | 49 |
Wexford | 9 | 8 | 71.5 | 107 |
Kerry | <5 | 6 | 67 | 99 |
Leitrim | 0 | 0 | 59.3 | 19 |
Cork | 21 | 18 | 53.6 | 291 |
Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 52.4 | 52 |