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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.

7 deaths occurred in March, and 2 deaths occurred in February.

The median age of those who died was 76 years and the age range was 64 – 95 years.

There has been a total of 4,585 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday 19th March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 229,831 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 255 are men / 265 are women
  • 68% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 34 years old
  • 266 in Dublin, 33 in Meath, 29 in Wexford, 25 in Offaly, 24 in Donegal, and the remaining 148 cases are spread across 19 other counties. *

 

As of 8am today, 328 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 83 are in ICU. 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

As of March 17th, 639,586 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

 

  • 468,328 people have received their first dose
  • 171,258 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//

 

*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 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

Today's cases**

(to midnight 19Mar2021)

5-Day Moving Average of New Cases

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population

(to 19Mar2021)

New Cases during last 14 days

(to 19Mar2021)

Ireland

525

503

150.2

7152

Offaly

25

17

388.7

303

Longford

7

7

276.5

113

Kildare

17

31

237.7

529

Dublin

266

226

224

3018

Meath

33

28

210.7

411

Donegal

24

20

177.8

283

Carlow

<5

6

154.6

88

Louth

13

12

142

183

Tipperary

13

16

134.1

214

Roscommon

9

7

133.2

86

Galway

22

25

132.1

341

Waterford

12

12

123.9

144

Westmeath

<5

9

123.9

110

Wexford

29

17

118.2

177

Limerick

<5

9

116.5

227

Wicklow

8

10

103.2

147

Sligo

<5

4

90

59

Laois

5

7

83.8

71

Cavan

5

8

80.1

61

Mayo

<5

3

77.4

101

Monaghan

<5

2

73.3

45

Kerry

0

6

56.9

84

Clare

<5

5

53.9

64

Cork

21

14

45.7

248

Leitrim

0

1

34.3

11

Kilkenny

<5

3

34.3

34

 

~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 is 72.9
  • 5-day moving average is 503