Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Wednesday 3 March
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 25 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
5 deaths occurred in March, 13 occurred in February and 6 in occurred January or earlier. There is 1 death where the date of death is under investigation.
There has been a total of 4,357* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 4,357 reflects this.)
As of midnight Tuesday 2 March, the HPSC has been notified of 566 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 221,189* * confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(* *Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 7 confirmed cases. The figure of 221,189 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 489 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 114 are in ICU. There have been 29 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Sunday (28 February), there have been 439,782 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.
Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:
"Through the hard work and sacrifice of the vast majority of people, key disease indicators continue on a positive trajectory. However, we are still seeing outbreaks in the community, including those linked to extended families, workplaces and funerals. We need to keep up our guard against the B117 variant of COVID-19, which we know is dominant in Ireland at present and highly transmissible.
"Our willingness to stick with the public health advice in our daily routine has brought us the progress that we can see today. Together, through staying at home as much as possible, social distancing, hand washing and wearing face coverings, we can continue to drive down the spread of COVID-19."
County | Today's cases (to midnight 2/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 566 | 591 | 199.4 | 9,497 |
Offaly | 21 | 23 | 402.8 | 314 |
Longford | 12 | 15 | 379.2 | 155 |
Westmeath | 24 | 19 | 289.5 | 257 |
Dublin | 233 | 246 | 274.4 | 3,697 |
Limerick | 24 | 31 | 264.8 | 516 |
Louth | 21 | 21 | 263.8 | 340 |
Laois | 11 | 11 | 231.4 | 196 |
Kildare | 37 | 23 | 225.6 | 502 |
Galway | 17 | 28 | 222.8 | 575 |
Meath | 30 | 25 | 214.3 | 418 |
Mayo | 8 | 15 | 212.2 | 277 |
Donegal | 25 | 19 | 199.1 | 317 |
Monaghan | <5 | 5 | 190.6 | 117 |
Tipperary | 11 | 16 | 184.3 | 294 |
Waterford | 6 | 6 | 174.7 | 203 |
Carlow | <5 | 6 | 172.1 | 98 |
Cavan | <5 | 5 | 151 | 115 |
Clare | 19 | 13 | 149.8 | 178 |
Leitrim | <5 | 2 | 131.1 | 42 |
Roscommon | <5 | 6 | 116.2 | 75 |
Wicklow | 10 | 9 | 99 | 141 |
Sligo | <5 | 3 | 82.4 | 54 |
Wexford | 7 | 9 | 80.1 | 120 |
Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 76.6 | 76 |
Cork | 19 | 23 | 61.2 | 332 |
Kerry | 8 | 9 | 59.6 | 88 |