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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

  

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