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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

4 deaths occurred in March, 3 occurred in February and 1 in January*.

The median age of those who died was 82 years and the age range was 69-94 years.

There has been a total of 4,405 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Thursday 4th March, the HPSC has been notified of 522 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 222,169** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 275 are men / 243 are women
  • 67% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 33 years old
  • 280 in Dublin, 28 in Meath, 28 in Kildare, 26 in Cork and 19 in Donegal and the remaining 141 cases are spread across 19 other counties***.

As of 8am today, 426 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 102 are in ICU. 34 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of March 2nd, 460,637 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

  • 316,056 people have received their first dose
  • 144,581 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.

ENDS//

*There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.

**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 222,169 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 04 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County

Today's cases (to midnight 04Mar2021)***

5 day moving average (to midnight 04Mar2021)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (19Feb2021 to 04Mar2021)

New Cases during last 14 days (19Feb2021 to 04Mar2021)

Ireland

522

518

185.1

8,815

Longford

18

13

393.9

161

Offaly

11

19

383.5

299

Westmeath

10

17

272.6

242

Louth

13

21

263.8

340

Dublin

280

224

259.5

3,497

Limerick

14

20

239.1

466

Laois

10

8

211.3

179

Meath

28

27

208.7

407

Kildare

28

23

204

454

Mayo

6

12

187

244

Galway

13

21

185.2

478

Donegal

19

16

177.8

283

Carlow

0

4

166.9

95

Tipperary

<5

11

161.7

258

Monaghan

7

5

159.6

98

Clare

<5

11

142.2

169

Waterford

<5

6

142

165

Cavan

9

6

137.8

105

Roscommon

<5

6

113.1

73

Wicklow

5

8

95.5

136

Leitrim

0

1

87.4

28

Sligo

7

4

77.8

51

Kilkenny

<5

3

73.6

73

Wexford

<5

5

68.8

103

Kerry

<5

5

59.6

88

Cork

26

23

59.5

323

~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 82.6
  • 5-day moving average 518