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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 26 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

24 of these deaths occurred in February, 1 in January and 1 in October.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 58-98 years.

There has been a total of 4,135 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday 19th February, the HPSC has been notified of 988 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 214,378* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 

Of the cases notified today:

  • 487 are men / 499 are women
  • 70% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 32 years old
  • 378 in Dublin, 68 in Galway, 61 in Kildare, 47 in Limerick, 45 in Louth and the remaining 389 cases are spread across all other counties.**

As of 8am today, 719 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 149 are in ICU. 36 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of February 17th, 310,900 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

  • 197,609 people have received their first dose
  • 113,291 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 10 confirmed cases. The figure of 214,378 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.

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 19 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County

Today's cases (to midnight 19Feb2021)

5 day moving average (to midnight 19Feb2021)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (06Feb2021 to 19Feb2021)

New Cases during last 14 days (06Feb2021 to 19Feb2021)

Ireland

988

808

250.2

11,914

Offaly

40

27

409.2

319

Monaghan

11

15

386.1

237

Dublin

378

312

354.5

4,777

Galway

68

65

333.3

860

Laois

29

21

307.0

260

Louth

45

25

293.3

378

Longford

12

12

286.3

117

Meath

39

34

276.9

540

Waterford

26

25

273.7

318

Cavan

12

9

271.7

207

Kildare

61

47

269.7

600

Mayo

34

26

257.5

336

Limerick

47

36

253.5

494

Westmeath

16

14

247.8

220

Carlow

12

8

233.6

133

Wexford

15

14

183.7

275

Tipperary

36

26

174.9

279

Leitrim

<5

4

156.0

50

Donegal

7

15

155.2

247

Clare

14

12

140.6

167

Wicklow

21

11

128.5

183

Sligo

<5

4

125.1

82

Roscommon

7

5

119.3

77

Cork

38

32

107.0

581

Kilkenny

10

6

95.7

95

Kerry

<5

2

55.5

82

~The 5-day moving average of the number of new cases provides an appropriate indicator of current daily case numbers within a county. It takes account of any validation of cases for previous days and smooths out daily/weekend fluctuations in case numbers.