Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 13 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today, 12 occurred in March.*
The median age of those who died was 77 years. The age range was 51-93.
There has been a total of 4,666 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 27th March, the HPSC has been notified of 604 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 234,541 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 299 are men / 298 are women
- 77% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 27 years old
- 224 in Dublin, 45 in Donegal, 36 in Kildare, 34 in Limerick, 26 in Tipperary and the remaining 239 cases are spread across 20 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 322 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 66 are in ICU. 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 25th 2021, 760,168 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 548,945 people have received their first dose
- 211,223 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.
*There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.
**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 27Mar2021)** | 5 day moving average (to midnight 27Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (14Mar2021 to 27Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (14Mar2021 to 27Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 604 | 620 | 164.5 | 7,834 |
| Offaly | 22 | 29 | 443.8 | 346 |
| Donegal | 45 | 46 | 283.9 | 452 |
| Dublin | 224 | 259 | 246.9 | 3,327 |
| Meath | 25 | 31 | 227.6 | 444 |
| Kildare | 36 | 42 | 220.2 | 490 |
| Longford | <5 | 6 | 190.8 | 78 |
| Tipperary | 26 | 20 | 188 | 300 |
| Westmeath | 15 | 17 | 185.9 | 165 |
| Laois | 19 | 15 | 162.9 | 138 |
| Louth | 18 | 17 | 158.3 | 204 |
| Wexford | 18 | 17 | 148.3 | 222 |
| Cavan | 15 | 12 | 147 | 112 |
| Roscommon | 6 | 6 | 136.3 | 88 |
| Waterford | <5 | 7 | 127.4 | 148 |
| Wicklow | 24 | 14 | 120.1 | 171 |
| Galway | 16 | 18 | 119.7 | 309 |
| Carlow | <5 | 1 | 119.4 | 68 |
| Limerick | 34 | 18 | 100.6 | 196 |
| Sligo | 0 | 1 | 70.2 | 46 |
| Clare | 12 | 6 | 64 | 76 |
| Leitrim | 5 | 2 | 62.4 | 20 |
| Mayo | 10 | 10 | 59.8 | 78 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 4 | 49.4 | 49 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 2 | 45.6 | 28 |
| Cork | 20 | 18 | 42.4 | 230 |
| Kerry | <5 | 2 | 33.2 | 49 |
~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 83.8
- 5-day moving average 620
