Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Thursday 18 March
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There have been no deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today.
There has been a total of 4,566 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Wednesday 17 March, the HPSC has been notified of 582 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 228,796* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 confirmed case. The figure of 228,796 cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 345 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 83 are in ICU. There have been 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Monday (15 March), there have been 620,580 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 17/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days | |
Ireland | 582 | 489 | 150.8 | 7,179 | |
Offaly | 19 | 17 | 350.2 | 273 | |
Longford | <5 | 3 | 283.8 | 116 | |
Kildare | 24 | 35 | 238.2 | 530 | |
Dublin | 262 | 205 | 227 | 3,059 | |
Meath | 34 | 28 | 220.5 | 430 | |
Donegal | 8 | 18 | 164.6 | 262 | |
Carlow | 9 | 9 | 149.3 | 85 | |
Louth | 17 | 13 | 147.4 | 190 | |
Westmeath | 12 | 12 | 143.1 | 127 | |
Tipperary | 14 | 19 | 130.4 | 208 | |
Limerick | 22 | 11 | 129.8 | 253 | |
Galway | 41 | 27 | 124.4 | 321 | |
Roscommon | 10 | 6 | 119.3 | 77 | |
Waterford | 23 | 12 | 113.6 | 132 | |
Wexford | 19 | 14 | 98.8 | 148 | |
Wicklow | 13 | 10 | 98.3 | 140 | |
Sligo | <5 | 4 | 91.6 | 60 | |
Mayo | <5 | 3 | 89.7 | 117 | |
Cavan | 10 | 7 | 89.3 | 68 | |
Monaghan | <5 | 3 | 84.7 | 52 | |
Laois | 5 | 4 | 76.7 | 65 | |
Kerry | 8 | 5 | 58.2 | 86 | |
Clare | 7 | 5 | 54.7 | 65 | |
Cork | 13 | 16 | 48.3 | 262 | |
Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 42.3 | 42 | |
Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |