Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of no additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 4,836 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday 18th April, the HPSC has been notified of 403 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There has now been a total of 243,911 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 208 are men / 192 are women
- 73% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 174 in Dublin, 34 in Meath, 20 in Kildare, 18 in Mayo, 16 in Cork and the remaining 141 cases are spread across 20 other counties*
As of 8am today, 183 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 50 are in ICU. 7 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 17th, 2021, 1,204,063 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 852,189 people have received their first dose
- 351,874 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//
*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.
- 7-day incidence 54.7
- 5-day moving average 364
(incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 18Apr2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 18Apr2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (05Apr2021 to 18Apr2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (05Apr2021 to 18Apr2021) |
| Ireland | 403 | 364 | 115.0 | 5,478 |
| Donegal | 11 | 25 | 204.2 | 325 |
| Kildare | 20 | 25 | 200.9 | 447 |
| Offaly | 6 | 9 | 192.4 | 150 |
| Dublin | 174 | 139 | 172.3 | 2,321 |
| Meath | 34 | 26 | 161.0 | 314 |
| Longford | <5 | 4 | 149.2 | 61 |
| Westmeath | 10 | 10 | 136.3 | 121 |
| Laois | <5 | 7 | 129.9 | 110 |
| Cavan | 8 | 6 | 122.1 | 93 |
| Leitrim | 12 | 4 | 103 | 33 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 4 | 97.7 | 60 |
| Mayo | 18 | 8 | 93.5 | 122 |
| Louth | 14 | 10 | 88.5 | 114 |
| Roscommon | 5 | 4 | 86.8 | 56 |
| Limerick | 7 | 14 | 86.2 | 168 |
| Galway | 14 | 16 | 84.9 | 219 |
| Wicklow | 9 | 7 | 75.8 | 108 |
| Waterford | <5 | 7 | 69.7 | 81 |
| Carlow | 5 | 4 | 66.7 | 38 |
| Tipperary | 8 | 6 | 58.9 | 94 |
| Wexford | <5 | 5 | 53.4 | 80 |
| Kerry | <5 | 4 | 39.9 | 59 |
| Cork | 16 | 13 | 39.8 | 216 |
| Clare | <5 | 3 | 38.7 | 46 |
| Sligo | 12 | 3 | 32.0 | 21 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 2 | 21.2 | 21 |
~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.
