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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 16 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

3 deaths occurred in March, 12 in February, 1 in January.

The median age of those who died was 88 years and the age range was 59 – 96 years.

There has been a total of 4,534 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday 12th March, the HPSC has been notified of 543 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 226,358* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 269 are men / 271 are women
  • 73% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 29 years old
  • 235 in Dublin, 50 in Kildare, 39 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 28 in Galway and the remaining 160 cases are spread across 20 other counties**

 

As of 8am today, 340 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 85 are in ICU. 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

As of March 10th, 570,391 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

 

  • 409,662 people have received their first dose
  • 160,729 people have received their second dose

 

TheCOVID-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.

 

ENDS//

 

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 226,258 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 12 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

Today's cases (to midnight 12Mar2021)

5 day moving average (to midnight 12Mar2021)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021)

New Cases during last 14 days (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021)

Ireland

543

545

155.3

7,397

Longford

<5

11

437.9

179

Offaly

21

23

351.5

274

Dublin

235

223

234.4

3,158

Meath

31

33

211.2

412

Kildare

50

52

209.9

467

Westmeath

7

8

192.6

171

Louth

10

14

183.9

237

Limerick

15

23

165.7

323

Donegal

39

23

145.1

231

Mayo

12

10

128

167

Galway

28

24

121.7

314

Roscommon

11

7

117.7

76

Tipperary

12

10

115.3

184

Carlow

<5

4

110.7

63

Laois

<5

4

103.9

88

Wicklow

<5

8

96.2

137

Monaghan

0

4

94.5

58

Waterford

5

10

89.5

104

Clare

<5

4

87.5

104

Sligo

5

4

77.8

51

Cavan

<5

3

72.2

55

Wexford

14

9

72.1

108

Kerry

11

6

59.6

88

Cork

17

23

52.9

287

Leitrim

<5

1

46.8

15

Kilkenny

<5

3

46.4

46

~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.

 

  • 7-day incidence 77.3
  • 5-day moving average 545