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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

4 deaths occurred in March, 4 in February.

The median age of those who died was 74 years and the age range was 51 - 94 years.

There has been a total of 4,713 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Thursday 1st April, the HPSC has been notified of 591 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 237,187* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 292 are men / 295 are women
  • 72% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 31 years old
  • 288 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 30 in Meath, 28 in Westmeath, 27 in Laois and the remaining 178 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.

 

As of 8am today, 264 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 62 are in ICU. 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

As of March 30th 2021, 840,561 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

 

  • 603,802 people have received their first dose
  • 236,759 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//

 

  • 7-day incidence 81.6
  • 5-day moving average 533

 

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 237,187 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 01 April 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

Today's cases (to midnight 01Apr2021)

5 day moving average (to midnight 01Apr2021)

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (19Mar2021 to 01Apr2021)

New Cases during last 14 days (19Mar2021 to 01Apr2021)

Ireland

591

533

166.6

7,935

Offaly

24

25

510.5

398

Donegal

25

20

286.4

456

Westmeath

28

21

258.0

229

Dublin

288

235

252.3

3,400

Meath

30

31

228.2

445

Kildare

40

36

223.4

497

Laois

27

17

222.0

188

Longford

<5

4

178.6

73

Cavan

9

11

168.0

128

Louth

5

13

161.4

208

Tipperary

11

12

158.6

253

Wexford

<5

12

142.3

213

Wicklow

20

8

108.8

155

Roscommon

0

2

108.5

70

Limerick

6

13

102.1

199

Galway

21

17

100.8

260

Waterford

<5

5

99.8

116

Mayo

<5

9

85.8

112

Carlow

<5

3

68.5

39

Monaghan

6

6

65.2

40

Leitrim

0

1

62.4

20

Clare

<5

4

55.5

66

Cork

19

22

49.4

268

Kilkenny

<5

1

40.3

40

Sligo

<5

1

36.6

24

Kerry

9

4

25.7

38

~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.