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Coronavirus: Four Deaths And 859 Cases Confirmed

Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:00

63 of the new confirmed cases are in the midlands.

Local figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 4 additional deaths related to COVID-19. Of the deaths reported today, all occurred in October.

There has been a total of 1,882 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Friday 23rd October, the HPSC has been notified of 859 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 56,108* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

415 are men / 441 are women

62% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 35 years old

192 in Dublin, 148 in Cork, 58 in Donegal, 55 in Galway, 54 in Meath, with 352 cases spread across 21 remaining counties.

 

As of 2pm today, 315 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 37 are in ICU. There have been 16 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

County

  

Today’s cases

(to midnight 23OCT2020)

  

14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population

10OCT2020 to 23OCT2020)

  

New Cases during last 14 days

(10OCT2020 to 23OCT2020)

  

IRELAND

  

859

  

302.9

  

14423

  

Cavan

  

22

  

981.9

  

748

  

Meath

  

54

  

652.7

  

1273

  

Westmeath

  

14

  

448.3

  

398

  

Sligo

  

11

  

412

  

270

  

Monaghan

  

10

  

384.5

  

236

  

Galway

  

55

  

368.9

  

952

  

Cork

  

148

  

334

  

1813

  

Donegal

  

58

  

326.6

  

520

  

Wexford

  

17

  

317.9

  

476

  

Kildare

  

35

  

299.8

  

667

  

Longford

  

3

  

296

  

121

  

Limerick

  

32

  

291.4

  

568

  

Clare

  

12

  

272.7

  

324

  

Louth

  

22

  

271.6

  

350

  

Carlow

  

23

  

270.5

  

154

  

Kerry

  

40

  

269.5

  

398

  

Leitrim

  

4

  

259

  

83

  

Roscommon

  

11

  

257.2

  

166

  

Dublin

  

192

  

254.1

  

3423

  

Mayo

  

25

  

249.8

  

326

  

Laois

  

7

  

219.6

  

186

  

Offaly

  

3

  

214.2

  

167

  

Waterford

  

33

  

193.7

  

225

  

Kilkenny

  

14

  

180.4

  

179

  

Wicklow

  

7

  

143.2

  

204

  

Tipperary

  

7

  

122.8

  

196

Hand sanitiser:

The ViraPro recall has been extended to include ALL sanitation products in the range.

The company's hand sanitiser was pulled when tests showed it could cause irritation - and it's now emerged that other products in the range are not on the government's 'approved list'.

The Department of Agriculture says it's extending the recall as a precaution.

Minister Charlie McConalogue last night told the Dail that a full review is underway:

Health services:

A Professor in Immunology in Dublin says the main goal in tackling covid 19 is to protect our health services.

Two thirds of the new infections are in people under the age of 45.

Professor Rachel McLoughlin from Trinity College says if people don't stick to the rules under Level 5 we're in trouble:

Local figures:

777 new cases of Covid 19 have been confirmed and 7 further deaths.

63 of the cases were in the midlands,182 in Dublin, 81 in Galway, 44 in Wexford, 42 in Meath and 41 in Cork.

The 14 day incidence of the virus per 100 thousand people has increased to 306.

Westmeath has the third highest incidence rate in the country at 451, 37 new cases were reported in the county yesterday. 

Laois and Offaly both had 13 new cases, with the incidence rate in Offaly at 225 and while it's 219 in Laois. 

The Chief Medical Officer says 15 thousand people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the last two weeks.

Dr Tony Holohan is appealing to everyone to behave as if they're a close contact of a confirmed case.

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