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Coronavirus: 1,372 New Cases; 7 Deaths Confirmed

Monday, 25 January 2021 09:22

National news updates on Monday 25th January.

Latest Figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 7 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

All of these deaths occurred in January.

The median age of those who died is 77 years and the age range is 43-94 years.

There has been a total of 2,977 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Sunday 24th January, the HPSC has been notified of 1,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 188,923* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 616 are men / 751 are women

  • 56% are under 45 years of age

  • The median age is 41 years old

  • 502 in Dublin, 164 in Cork, 77 in Wexford, 75 in Waterford, 66 in Louth and the remaining 488 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 2pm today, 1,905 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 219 are in ICU. 58 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 24 January 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County

  

Today's cases

(to midnight 24Jan2021)

  

5-Day Moving Average of New Cases~

(to 24Jan2021)

  

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(to 24an2021)

  

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 24Jan2021)

  

Ireland

  

1,372

  

 1,926

  

 766.2

  

 36,486

  

Monaghan

  

53

  

 52

  

 1,485.7

  

 912

  

Mayo

  

34

  

 52

  

 1,213.7

  

 1,584

  

Louth

  

66

  

 82

  

 1,151.4

  

 1,484

  

Waterford

  

75

  

 76

  

 990.7

  

 1,151

  

Carlow

  

9

  

 28

  

 978.4

  

 557

  

Wexford

  

77

  

 81

  

 905.7

  

 1,356

  

Dublin

  

502

  

 673

  

 862.7

  

 11,624

  

Limerick

  

36

  

 73

  

 829.1

  

 1,616

  

Galway

  

26

  

 80

  

 813.0

  

 2,098

  

Cavan

  

11

  

 30

  

 766.6

  

 584

  

Donegal

  

18

  

 57

  

 739.4

  

 1,177

  

Meath

  

45

  

 84

  

 733.7

  

 1,431

  

Offaly

  

33

  

 38

  

 705.5

  

 550

  

Cork

  

164

  

 180

  

 703.3

  

 3,818

  

Kildare

  

45

  

 79

  

 649.4

  

 1,445

  

Laois

  

25

  

 24

  

 628.1

  

 532

  

Tipperary

  

33

  

 47

  

 583.5

  

 931

  

Clare

  

23

  

 28

  

 583.2

  

 693

  

Roscommon

  

<5

  

 11

  

 545.4

  

 352

  

Wicklow

  

25

  

 43

  

 469.0

  

 668

  

Kilkenny

  

14

  

 19

  

 443.4

  

 440

  

Westmeath

  

17

  

 23

  

 417.9

  

 371

  

Sligo

  

12

  

 21

  

 415.0

  

 272

  

Kerry

  

15

  

 26

  

 403.5

  

 596

  

Longford

  

9

  

 13

  

 384.1

  

 157

  

Leitrim

  

<5

  

 6

  

 271.5

  

 87

  

~The 5-day moving average of the number of new cases provides an appropriate indicator of current daily cases numbers within a county. It takes account of any validation of cases for previous days and smooths out daily/weekend fluctuations in case numbers.

US:

US President Joe Biden is to reinstate a travel ban to the US for people coming from Ireland.

In his final days in office Donald Trump had announced the restrictions for people coming from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted and were due to end tomorrow.

AFP is reporting the ban will continue to stop the spead of Covid-19, while also adding South Africa to the list due to the emergence of variants.

Testing close contacts:

HSE CEO Paul Reid says testing of close contacts could

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