Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 30 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
12 deaths occurred in March, 13 in February, 4 in January and 1 is under investigation.
There has been a total of 4,452 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Monday 8th March, the HPSC has been notified of 311 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 223,957* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 159 are men / 149 are women
- 64% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 34 years old
- 135 in Dublin, 29 in Kildare, 21 in Cork, 18 in Limerick, 14 in Louth and the remaining 94 cases are spread across 16 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 397 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 95 are in ICU. 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 6th, 523,069 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 373,149 people have received their first dose
- 149,920 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.
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*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 223,957 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.
| County | Today's cases** (to midnight 08Mar2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 08Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (to 08Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 311 | 466 | 161.3 | 7683 |
| Longford | <5 | 9 | 403.7 | 165 |
| Offaly | 10 | 15 | 330.9 | 258 |
| Westmeath | 9 | 9 | 243.3 | 216 |
| Dublin | 135 | 211 | 235.3 | 3170 |
| Meath | 12 | 27 | 212.8 | 415 |
| Limerick | 18 | 21 | 205.7 | 401 |
| Louth | 14 | 14 | 204.1 | 263 |
| Kildare | 29 | 24 | 171.2 | 381 |
| Laois | <5 | 6 | 157 | 133 |
| Mayo | 10 | 12 | 150.9 | 197 |
| Carlow | <5 | 4 | 149.3 | 85 |
| Donegal | 0 | 11 | 148.2 | 236 |
| Galway | 12 | 16 | 142.2 | 367 |
| Tipperary | <5 | 13 | 134.8 | 215 |
| Clare | <5 | 5 | 108.6 | 129 |
| Monaghan | 0 | 4 | 105.9 | 65 |
| Waterford | 8 | 6 | 97.3 | 113 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 3 | 91.4 | 59 |
| Cavan | 0 | 3 | 90.6 | 69 |
| Wicklow | <5 | 11 | 90.6 | 129 |
| Sligo | 0 | 4 | 74.8 | 49 |
| Wexford | 9 | 8 | 71.5 | 107 |
| Kerry | <5 | 6 | 67 | 99 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 0 | 59.3 | 19 |
| Cork | 21 | 18 | 53.6 | 291 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 52.4 | 52 |
~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 70.1
- 5-day moving average 466
