Coronavirus: 311 New Cases; 30 Deaths Reported Today

National news updates on Tuesday 9th March.

Latest Figures: 

 

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 30 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

12 deaths occurred in March, 13 in February, 4 in January and 1 is under investigation.

There has been a total of 4,452 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 8th March, the HPSC has been notified of 311 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 223,957* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

159 are men / 149 are women

64% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 34 years old

135 in Dublin, 29 in Kildare, 21 in Cork, 18 in Limerick, 14 in Louth and the remaining 94 cases are spread across 16 other counties** 

As of 8am today, 397 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 95 are in ICU. 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of March 6th, 523,069 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

373,149 people have received their first dose

149,920 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 223,957 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.

 

County

 

Today's cases**

(to midnight 08Mar2021)

 

5-Day Moving Average of New Cases

 

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(to 08Mar2021)

 

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 08Mar2021)

 

Ireland

 

311

 

466

 

161.3

 

7683

 

Longford

 

<5

 

9

 

403.7

 

165

 

Offaly

 

10

 

15

 

330.9

 

258

 

Westmeath

 

9

 

9

 

243.3

 

216

 

Dublin

 

135

 

211

 

235.3

 

3170

 

Meath

 

12

 

27

 

212.8

 

415

 

Limerick

 

18

 

21

 

205.7

 

401

 

Louth

 

14

 

14

 

204.1

 

263

 

Kildare

 

29

 

24

 

171.2

 

381

 

Laois

 

<5

 

6

 

157

 

133

 

Mayo

 

10

 

12

 

150.9

 

197

 

Carlow

 

<5

 

4

 

149.3

 

85

 

Donegal

 

0

 

11

 

148.2

 

236

 

Galway

 

12

 

16

 

142.2

 

367

 

Tipperary

 

<5

 

13

 

134.8

 

215

 

Clare

 

<5

 

5

 

108.6

 

129

 

Monaghan

 

0

 

4

 

105.9

 

65

 

Waterford

 

8

 

6

 

97.3

 

113

 

Roscommon

 

<5

 

3

 

91.4

 

59

 

Cavan

 

0

 

3

 

90.6

 

69

 

Wicklow

 

<5

 

11

 

90.6

 

129

 

Sligo

 

0

 

4

 

74.8

 

49

 

Wexford

 

9

 

8

 

71.5

 

107

 

Kerry

 

<5

 

6

 

67

 

99

 

Leitrim

 

0

 

0

 

59.3

 

19

 

Cork

 

21

 

18

 

53.6

 

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