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Coronavirus: 574 New Cases; 56 Deaths Reported Today

Wednesday, 24 February 2021 08:23

National news updates on Wednesday 24th February.

Latest Figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 56 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

31 of these deaths occurred in February, 13 occurred in January, 3 in December or earlier, while a further 9 are under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 82 years and the age range was 16 - 97 years.

There has been a total of 4,237 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Tuesday 23rd February, the HPSC has been notified of 574 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 216,870* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

285 are men / 287 are women

67% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 34 years old

175 in Dublin, 57 in Limerick, 43 in Kildare, 37 in Galway, 35 in Meath and the remaining 227 cases are spread across 18 other counties. **

As of 8am today, 652 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 137 are in ICU. 35 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of February 21, 353,971 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

222,073 people have received their first dose

131,898 people have received their second dose

Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “We continue to see good progress, but this needs to be sustained. It is vital that we get our children back to school over the coming weeks. A key part of making this a success will be our continued collective buy-in to the public health measures that are tried and tested. Stay at home, work from home where possible.”

“Given the increased transmissibility of the virus now, we must continue to limit our social contacts and do all we can to starve this disease of opportunities to spread.”

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 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 216,870 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.

Today’s cases, 5-day moving average of new cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 23 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

  

Today's cases (to midnight 23Feb2021)**

  

5 day moving average (to midnight 23Feb2021)**

  

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (10Feb2021 to 23Feb2021)**

  

New Cases during last 14 days (10Feb2021 to 23Feb2021)**

  

Ireland

  

574

  

700

  

231.4

  

         11,017

  

Offaly

  

7

  

22

  

415.6

  

               324

  

Galway

  

37

  

43

  

327.4

  

               845

  

Dublin

  

175

  

255

  

314

  

           4,231

  

Laois

  

18

  

16

  

292.8

  

               248

  

Monaghan

  

0

  

9

  

286.7

  

               176

  

Longford

  

17

  

8

  

286.3

  

               117

  

Kildare

  

43

  

42

  

273.7

  

               609

  

Limerick

  

57

  

43

  

272.4

  

               531

  

Louth

  

<5

  

26

  

271.6

  

               350

  

Mayo

  

21

  

24

  

265.1

  

               346

  

Waterford

  

21

  

21

  

262.5

  

               305

  

Westmeath

  

14

  

16

  

261.3

  

               232

  

Cavan

  

10

  

11

  

244.2

  

               186

  

Meath

  

35

  

27

  

238.9

  

               466

  

Carlow

  

8

  

8

  

212.5

  

               121

  

Tipperary

  

17

  

24

  

188

  

               300

  

Leitrim

  

0

  

2

  

174.8

  

                 56

  

Donegal

  

21

  

20

  

160.8

  

               256

  

Clare

  

15

  

15

  

159.1

  

               189

  

Wexford

  

5

  

8

  

142.3

  

               213

  

Roscommon

  

0

  

5

  

119.3

  

                 77

  

Wicklow

  

10

  

13

  

106

  

               151

  

Sligo

  

<5

  

4

  

103.8

  

                 68

  

Kilkenny

  

5

  

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