Saturday, 13 March 2021 10:06
National news updates on Saturday 13th March.
Latest figures:
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 16 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
3 deaths occurred in March, 12 in February, 1 in January.
The median age of those who died was 88 years and the age range was 59 – 96 years.
There has been a total of 4,534 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 12th March, the HPSC has been notified of 543 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 226,358* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 269 are men / 271 are women
- 73% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 29 years old
- 235 in Dublin, 50 in Kildare, 39 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 28 in Galway and the remaining 160 cases are spread across 20 other counties**
As of 8am today, 340 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 85 are in ICU. 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 10th, 570,391 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 409,662 people have received their first dose
- 160,729 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 at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 226,258 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.
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County |
Today's cases (to midnight 12Mar2021) |
5 day moving average (to midnight 12Mar2021) |
14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021) |
New Cases during last 14 days (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021) |
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|
Ireland |
543 |
545 |
155.3 |
7,397 |
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|
Longford |
<5 |
11 |
437.9 |
179 |
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|
Offaly |
21 |
23 |
351.5 |
274 |
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|
Dublin |
235 |
223 |
234.4 |
3,158 |
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|
Meath |
31 |
33 |
211.2 |
412 |
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|
Kildare |
50 |
52 |
209.9 |
467 |
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|
Westmeath |
7 |
8 |
192.6 |
171 |
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|
Louth |
10 |
14 |
183.9 |
237 |
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|
Limerick |
15 |
23 |
165.7 |
323 |
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|
Donegal |
39 |
23 |
145.1 |
231 |
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|
Mayo |
12 |
10 |
128 |
167 |
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|
Galway |
28 |
24 |
121.7 |
314 |
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|
Roscommon |
11 |
7 |
117.7 |
76 |
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|
Tipperary |
12 |
10 |
115.3 |
184 |
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|
Carlow |
<5 |
4 |
110.7 |
63 |
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|
Laois |
<5 |
4 |
103.9 |
88 |
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|
Wicklow |
<5 |
8 |
96.2 |
137 |
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|
Monaghan |
0 |
4 |
94.5 |
58 |
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|
Waterford |
5 |
10 |
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