Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 47 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
14 of these deaths occurred in March, 18 occurred in February and 15 occurred in January.
The median age of those who died was 83 years and the age range was 60 - 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,499 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Tuesday 9th March, the HPSC has been notified of 631 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 224,588 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 317 are men / 308 are women
- 74% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 29 years old
- 247 in Dublin, 50 in Kildare, 44 in Meath, 41 in Cork, 32 in Limerick and the remaining 217 cases are spread across 20 other counties. *
As of 8am today, 370 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 92 are in ICU. 31 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 07, 525,768 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 375,521 people have received their first dose
- 150,247 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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*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 09Mar2021)* | 5 day moving average (to midnight 09Mar2021)* | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (24Feb2021 to 09Mar2021)* | New Cases during last 14 days (24Feb2021 to 09Mar2021)* |
| Ireland | 631 | 488 | 162.5 | 7,739 |
| Longford | 14 | 8 | 396.3 | 162 |
| Offaly | 31 | 19 | 363.0 | 283 |
| Dublin | 247 | 205 | 240.6 | 3,242 |
| Westmeath | 6 | 8 | 234.3 | 208 |
| Meath | 44 | 30 | 217.4 | 424 |
| Louth | 19 | 15 | 215.7 | 278 |
| Limerick | 32 | 26 | 196.0 | 382 |
| Kildare | 50 | 29 | 174.4 | 388 |
| Donegal | 23 | 12 | 149.5 | 238 |
| Carlow | 8 | 6 | 149.3 | 85 |
| Mayo | 9 | 13 | 142.5 | 186 |
| Laois | <5 | 4 | 135.8 | 115 |
| Galway | 19 | 17 | 134.9 | 348 |
| Tipperary | 12 | 14 | 129.1 | 206 |
| Monaghan | 9 | 4 | 120.5 | 74 |
| Clare | 5 | 4 | 97.6 | 116 |
| Waterford | 19 | 10 | 96.4 | 112 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 2 | 94.5 | 61 |
| Wicklow | 7 | 11 | 88.5 | 126 |
| Cavan | 5 | 3 | 84.0 | 64 |
| Sligo | <5 | 4 | 77.8 | 51 |
| Wexford | 8 | 10 | 73.5 | 110 |
| Kerry | 8 | 7 | 65.0 | 96 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 0 | 59.3 | 19 |
| Cork | 41 | 21 | 57.3 | 311 |
~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.
g 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 71.7
- 5-day moving average 488
