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20 new cases of Covid-19 in Galway - 761 nationwide with 18 additional deaths

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20 new cases of Covid-19 in Galway - 761 nationwide with 18 additional deaths

Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team

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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

Of the deaths reported today 11 occurred in March and 7 occurred in February. 

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The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 59 - 95 years.

There has been a total of 4,705 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Wednesday 31st March, the HPSC has been notified of 761 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 236,600* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 383 are men / 373 are women
  • 72% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 33 years old
  • 372 in Dublin, 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.

As of 8am today, 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 63 are in ICU. 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of March 29th  2021, 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

  • 590,688 people have received their first dose
  • 228,988 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 15 confirmed case. The figure of 236,000 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.

Today’s cases, 5-day moving average of new cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 31 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County Today's cases (to midnight 31Mar2021) 5 day moving average (to midnight 31Mar2021) 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021) New Cases during last 14 days (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021)
Ireland 761 536 164.9 7,851
Offaly 38 24 509.2 397
Donegal 14 24 281.4 448
Dublin 372 223 247.6 3,336
Westmeath 21 19 236.6 210
Meath 55 30 222 433
Kildare 40 34 220.2 490
Laois 16 15 210.2 178
Longford 5 4 203.1 83
Tipperary 16 16 163.6 261
Louth 27 16 162.2 209
Cavan 11 12 160.2 122
Wexford 11 14 149.6 224
Roscommon <5 3 113.1 73
Limerick 28 18 105.7 206
Galway 20 16 104.6 270
Waterford 7 4 103.3 120
Wicklow 0 9 101.8 145
Mayo 15 10 85.8 112
Carlow <5 3 77.3 44
Leitrim <5 2 68.7 22
Monaghan 6 5 60.3 37
Clare <5 6 55.5 66
Cork 43 22 48.4 263
Sligo <5 0 42.7 28
Kilkenny 0 1 38.3 38
Kerry <5 3 24.4 36

~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.

  • the 7-day incidence rate is 81.6
  • the 5-day moving average is 536

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