Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 19 March
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
9 deaths occurred in March, 1 date of death remains under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 75 years and the age range was 45 – 88 years.
There has been a total of 4,576 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 18 March, the HPSC has been notified of 507 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 229,306* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(* Validation of data has resulted in the re-classification of 3 probable cases to confirmed status. The figure of 229,306 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 336 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU. 43 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Tuesday (16 March), there have been 632,359 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 18/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 507 | 513 | 150.5 | 7,165 |
Offaly | 24 | 14 | 364.3 | 284 |
Longford | 15 | 5 | 278.9 | 114 |
Kildare | 40 | 35 | 243.6 | 542 |
Dublin | 216 | 219 | 222.4 | 2996 |
Meath | 17 | 31 | 215.3 | 420 |
Carlow | 7 | 10 | 163.4 | 93 |
Donegal | 16 | 19 | 163.3 | 260 |
Louth | 7 | 13 | 142.8 | 184 |
Tipperary | 18 | 22 | 138.5 | 221 |
Westmeath | 5 | 9 | 137.4 | 122 |
Galway | 29 | 27 | 130.6 | 337 |
Limerick | 11 | 12 | 128.3 | 250 |
Roscommon | 6 | 6 | 122.4 | 79 |
Waterford | 10 | 11 | 119.6 | 139 |
Wexford | 15 | 13 | 108.2 | 162 |
Wicklow | 12 | 12 | 103.2 | 147 |
Sligo | 6 | 5 | 90 | 59 |
Mayo | <5 | 2 | 87.4 | 114 |
Laois | 16 | 6 | 83.8 | 71 |
Cavan | <5 | 8 | 81.4 | 62 |
Monaghan | <5 | 3 | 76.6 | 47 |
Kerry | 7 | 7 | 61.6 | 91 |
Clare | 5 | 6 | 57.2 | 68 |
Cork | 15 | 14 | 46.1 | 250 |
Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 42.3 | 42 |
Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |