National news updates on Thursday 1st April.
Latest Figures:
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today 11 occurred in March and 7 occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 59 - 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,705 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday 31st March, the HPSC has been notified of 761 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 236,600* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
383 are men / 373 are women
72% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 33 years old
372 in Dublin, 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 63 are in ICU. 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 29th 2021, 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
590,688 people have received their first dose
228,988 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.
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County |
Today's cases (to midnight 31Mar2021) |
5 day moving average (to midnight 31Mar2021) |
14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021) |
New Cases during last 14 days (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021) |
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Ireland |
761 |
536 |
164.9 |
7,851 |
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Offaly |
38 |
24 |
509.2 |
397 |
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Donegal |
14 |
24 |
281.4 |
448 |
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Dublin |
372 |
223 |
247.6 |
3,336 |
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Westmeath |
21 |
19 |
236.6 |
210 |
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Meath |
55 |
30 |
222 |
433 |
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Kildare |
40 |
34 |
220.2 |
490 |
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Laois |
16 |
15 |
210.2 |
178 |
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Longford |
5 |
4 |
203.1 |
83 |
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Tipperary |
16 |
16 |
163.6 |
261 |
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Louth |
27 |
16 |
162.2 |
209 |
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Cavan |
11 |
12 |
160.2 |
122 |
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Wexford |
11 |
14 |
149.6 |
224 |
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Roscommon |
<5 |
3 |
113.1 |
73 |
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Limerick |
28 |
18 |
105.7 |
206 |
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Galway |
20 |
16 |
104.6 |
270 |
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Waterford |
7 |
4 |
103.3 |
120 |
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Wicklow |
0 |
9 |
101.8 |
145 |
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Mayo |
15 |
10 |
85.8 |
112 |
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Carlow |
<5 |
3 |
77.3 |
44 |
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Leitrim |
<5 |
2 |
68.7 |
22 |
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Monaghan |
6 |
5 |
60.3 |
37 |
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Clare |
<5 |
6 |
55.5 |
66 |
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Cork |
43 |
22 |
48.4 |
263 |
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Sligo |
<5 |
0 |
42.7 |
28 |
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Kilkenny |
0 |
1 |
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