Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 26 March
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 20 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today, 11 occurred in March, 3 in February and 6 in January.
The median age of those who died was 73 years. The age range was 57-91 years.
There has been a total of 4,651 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 25 March, the HPSC has been notified of 584 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 233,327* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 15 confirmed cases. The figure of 233,327 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 317 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 67 are in ICU. There have been 25 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Tuesday (23 March), there have been 709,348 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 25/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 584 | 552 | 158.1 | 7,530 |
Offaly | 33 | 30 | 451.5 | 352 |
Donegal | 26 | 37 | 262.6 | 418 |
Dublin | 222 | 234 | 236.9 | 3,192 |
Kildare | 44 | 35 | 227 | 505 |
Meath | 31 | 31 | 217.4 | 424 |
Longford | 7 | 4 | 185.9 | 76 |
Westmeath | 29 | 14 | 174.6 | 155 |
Tipperary | 15 | 20 | 173 | 276 |
Roscommon | 10 | 5 | 154.9 | 100 |
Louth | 19 | 19 | 152.1 | 196 |
Wexford | 21 | 14 | 146.3 | 219 |
Waterford | 13 | 8 | 137.7 | 160 |
Galway | 24 | 20 | 130.6 | 337 |
Laois | 15 | 11 | 129.9 | 110 |
Carlow | <5 | 3 | 123 | 70 |
Cavan | 10 | 7 | 112.9 | 86 |
Limerick | 23 | 14 | 86.7 | 169 |
Wicklow | <5 | 7 | 80 | 114 |
Sligo | <5 | 2 | 79.3 | 52 |
Mayo | 10 | 7 | 58.2 | 76 |
Clare | 5 | 4 | 58.1 | 69 |
Leitrim | 0 | 2 | 49.9 | 16 |
Kilkenny | 5 | 4 | 46.4 | 46 |
Cork | 16 | 16 | 42.2 | 229 |
Kerry | 0 | 2 | 39.9 | 59 |
Monaghan | <5 | 1 | 39.1 | 24 |