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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

1 death occurred in March and 1 in January*.

There has been a total of 4,422 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Saturday 6th March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 223,219** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 271 are men / 254 are women
  • 74% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 31 years old
  • 214 in Dublin, 37 in Meath, 28 in Offaly, 28 in Limerick and 25 in Wicklow and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 19 other counties***.

 

As of 8am today, 423 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 103 are in ICU. 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

As of March 4th, 493,873 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

 

  • 346,256 people have received their first dose
  • 147,617 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 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 223,219 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 06 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

Today's cases***

(to midnight 06Mar2021)

5-Day Moving Average of New Cases

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(to 06Mar2021)

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 06Mar2021)

Ireland

525

520

172.3

8,203

Longford

6

12

381.7

156

Offaly

28

15

342.5

267

Westmeath

6

13

264.7

235

Dublin

214

235

248.4

3,347

Louth

20

16

239

308

Meath

37

33

222.5

434

Limerick

28

20

215

419

Kildare

19

27

177.5

395

Laois

8

8

177.1

150

Donegal

13

10

160.8

256

Mayo

12

11

159.4

208

Carlow

9

5

158.1

90

Galway

18

17

153.5

396

Tipperary

18

13

142.3

227

Monaghan

<5

4

132

81

Clare

5

9

126.2

150

Waterford

8

7

113.6

132

Roscommon

<5

4

113.1

73

Cavan

0

4

110.3

84

Wicklow

25

11

98.3

140

Leitrim

0

1

81.1

26

Sligo

<5

3

76.3

50

Wexford

14

8

74.8

112

Kerry

12

6

65

96

Kilkenny

<5

5

61.5

61

Cork

14

21

57.1

310

~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 76.6
  • 5-day moving average 520