Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Saturday 20 March
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
7 deaths occurred in March, and 2 deaths occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 76 years and the age range was 64 – 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,585 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Friday 19 March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 229,831 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 328 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 83 are in ICU. There have been 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Wednesday (17 March), there have been 639,586 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 19/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 525 | 503 | 150.2 | 7,152 |
Offaly | 25 | 17 | 388.7 | 303 |
Longford | 7 | 7 | 276.5 | 113 |
Kildare | 17 | 31 | 237.7 | 529 |
Dublin | 266 | 226 | 224 | 3,018 |
Meath | 33 | 28 | 210.7 | 411 |
Donegal | 24 | 20 | 177.8 | 283 |
Carlow | <5 | 6 | 154.6 | 88 |
Louth | 13 | 12 | 142 | 183 |
Tipperary | 13 | 16 | 134.1 | 214 |
Roscommon | 9 | 7 | 133.2 | 86 |
Galway | 22 | 25 | 132.1 | 341 |
Waterford | 12 | 12 | 123.9 | 144 |
Westmeath | <5 | 9 | 123.9 | 110 |
Wexford | 29 | 17 | 118.2 | 177 |
Limerick | <5 | 9 | 116.5 | 227 |
Wicklow | 8 | 10 | 103.2 | 147 |
Sligo | <5 | 4 | 90 | 59 |
Laois | 5 | 7 | 83.8 | 71 |
Cavan | 5 | 8 | 80.1 | 61 |
Mayo | <5 | 3 | 77.4 | 101 |
Monaghan | <5 | 2 | 73.3 | 45 |
Kerry | 0 | 6 | 56.9 | 84 |
Clare | <5 | 5 | 53.9 | 64 |
Cork | 21 | 14 | 45.7 | 248 |
Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |
Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 34.3 | 34 |