Press release
Statement from the Department of Health - Tuesday 29 March
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From Department of Health
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5,962 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19. In addition, on Monday 28 March, 8,587* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
As of 8am today, 1,605 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 50 are in ICU.
*These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.
Data on the epidemiology of COVID-19 cases and deaths is available on the HPSC’s Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Ireland data hub.
Additional data on vaccination, hospital, ICU and local electoral areas is available on Ireland’s COVID-19 data hub.
See the latest public health advice.