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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

There has been a total of 2,307* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Wednesday 6th January, the HPSC has been notified of 6,521 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 127,657 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 

Of the cases notified today:

  • 3,070 are men / 3,432 are women
  • 62% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 37 years old
  • 2,174 in Dublin, 571 in Cork, 382 in Limerick, 342 in Waterford, 315 in Wexford and the remaining 2,737 cases are spread across all other counties. 

As of 2pm today, 1,043 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 96 are in ICU. 99 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 deaths. The figure of 2,307 deaths reflects this.

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 06 January 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County

Today's cases (to midnight 06Jan2021)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (24Dec2020 to 06Jan2021)

New Cases during last 14 days (24Dec2020 to 06Jan2021)

Ireland

6,521

936.4

44,590

Monaghan

114

1,819.6

1,117

Louth

164

1,637.1

2,110

Limerick

382

1,399.2

2,727

Cavan

114

1,155.2

880

Donegal

187

1,145.2

1,823

Dublin

2,174

1,091.5

14,707

Sligo

85

981.2

643

Waterford

342

907.2

1,054

Cork

571

905.0

4,913

Mayo

119

900.3

1,175

Clare

254

899.7

1,069

Meath

240

867.5

1,692

Wexford

315

860.9

1,289

Carlow

123

850.1

484

Kilkenny

179

786.0

780

Kerry

120

775.9

1,146

Kildare

250

743.4

1,654

Offaly

94

741.4

578

Longford

28

716.9

293

Laois

82

689.5

584

Galway

184

562.7

1,452

Westmeath

42

534.0

474

Roscommon

31

520.6

336

Leitrim

13

505.6

162

Tipperary

175

487.0

777

Wicklow

141

471.1

671

NOTES TO THE EDITOR:

As of 7th January 2021, the reporting of cases on CIDR has caught up with the positive laboratory results. In the context of continuing high daily numbers of positive lab results, the lag period between positive lab results being issued and cases being reported on CIDR will generally be 24 to 48 hours. This is the expected time interval for processing and validation of laboratory results and generating cases on CIDR.

NOTE: 

7-day incidence 753.5

5-day moving average 6,147