Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
1 death occurred in March and 1 in January*.
There has been a total of 4,422 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 6th March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 223,219** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 271 are men / 254 are women
- 74% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 214 in Dublin, 37 in Meath, 28 in Offaly, 28 in Limerick and 25 in Wicklow and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 19 other counties***.
As of 8am today, 423 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 103 are in ICU. 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 4th, 493,873 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 346,256 people have received their first dose
- 147,617 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.
**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 223,219 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 06Mar2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population(to 06Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days(to 06Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 525 | 520 | 172.3 | 8,203 |
| Longford | 6 | 12 | 381.7 | 156 |
| Offaly | 28 | 15 | 342.5 | 267 |
| Westmeath | 6 | 13 | 264.7 | 235 |
| Dublin | 214 | 235 | 248.4 | 3,347 |
| Louth | 20 | 16 | 239 | 308 |
| Meath | 37 | 33 | 222.5 | 434 |
| Limerick | 28 | 20 | 215 | 419 |
| Kildare | 19 | 27 | 177.5 | 395 |
| Laois | 8 | 8 | 177.1 | 150 |
| Donegal | 13 | 10 | 160.8 | 256 |
| Mayo | 12 | 11 | 159.4 | 208 |
| Carlow | 9 | 5 | 158.1 | 90 |
| Galway | 18 | 17 | 153.5 | 396 |
| Tipperary | 18 | 13 | 142.3 | 227 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 4 | 132 | 81 |
| Clare | 5 | 9 | 126.2 | 150 |
| Waterford | 8 | 7 | 113.6 | 132 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 4 | 113.1 | 73 |
| Cavan | 0 | 4 | 110.3 | 84 |
| Wicklow | 25 | 11 | 98.3 | 140 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 81.1 | 26 |
| Sligo | <5 | 3 | 76.3 | 50 |
| Wexford | 14 | 8 | 74.8 | 112 |
| Kerry | 12 | 6 | 65 | 96 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 5 | 61.5 | 61 |
| Cork | 14 | 21 | 57.1 | 310 |
~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 76.6
- 5-day moving average 520
