Coronavirus: 10 Further Deaths And 507 New Cases Confirmed

Friday, 19 March 2021 09:20

National news updates on Friday 19th March.

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 18th March, the HPSC has been notified of 507 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

There is now a total of 229,306* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today: 249 are men / 255 are women 70% are under 45 years of age The median age is 33 years old 216 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 29 in Galway, 24 in Offaly, 18 in Tipperary, and the remaining 180 cases are spread across 20 other counties.

** 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 March 16th, 632,359 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

463,500 people have received their first dose 168,859 people have received their second dose The COVID-19 Dashboard 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.

* 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. **County data should be considered provisional as the national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR) is a dynamic system and case details are continually being validated and updated. Today’s cases, 5-day moving average of new cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 18 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County	Today's cases (to midnight 18Mar2021)**	5-Day Moving Average of New Cases	14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 18Mar2021)	New Cases during last 14 days (to 18Mar2021)
Ireland	507	513	150.5	7165
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