Coronavirus: 575 New Cases; 45 Additional Deaths Reported Today

Tuesday, 23 February 2021 06:58

National news updates on Tuesday 23rd February.

Latest Figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 45 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

41 of these deaths occurred in February, 4 in January.

The median age of those who died was 84 years and the age range was 55-104 years.

There has been a total of 4,181* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 22nd February, the HPSC has been notified of 575 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 216,300** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

272 are men / 298 are women

68% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 32 years old

218 in Dublin, 38 in Galway, 35 in Louth, 27 in Limerick, 26 in Westmeath and the remaining 231 cases are spread across 20 other counties.***

As of 8am today, 693 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 150 are in ICU. 37 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of February 20th, 350,322 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

219,899 people have received their first dose

130,423 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 1 death. The figure of 4,181 deaths reflects this.

**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 8 cases. The figure of 216,300 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.

County	Today's cases (to midnight 22Feb2021)	5 day moving average (to midnight 22Feb2021)	14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (09Feb2021 to 22Feb2021)	New Cases during last 14 days (09Feb2021 to 22Feb2021)
Ireland	575	737	240.4	11,448
Offaly	22	26	441.2	344
Monaghan	12	13	342.1	210
Dublin	218	271	339.4	4,573
Galway	38	52	330.5	853
Louth	35	29	296.4	382
Laois	10	15	295.2	250
Kildare	23	45	269.2	599
Waterford	20	24	263.4	306
Limerick	27	41	262.7	512
Mayo	15	25	255.2	333
Longford	<5	6	254.4	104
Westmeath	26	17	253.5	225
Meath	23	26	242.5	473
Cavan	5	12	233.7	178
Carlow	<5	7	209	119
Tipperary	10	23	180.5	288
Leitrim	<5	3	174.8	56
Donegal	15	21	161.4	257
Wexford	6	8	157	235
Clare	12	13	149	177
Roscommon	10	6	122.4	79
Wicklow	8	13	113	161
Sligo	7	5	112.9	74
Kilkenny	0	8	97.8	97
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