Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 14 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
9 deaths occurred in March, 1 occurred in February and 4 in January or earlier.
The median age of those who died was 80 years and the age range was 59-94 years.
There has been a total of 4,419 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 5th March, the HPSC has been notified of 539 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 222,699* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 295 are men / 240 are women
- 69% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 33 years old
- 245 in Dublin, 42 in Meath, 29 in Kildare, 26 in Limerick, 24 in Cork and the remaining 173 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 414 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 101 are in ICU. 22 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 3rd, 474,645 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 328,598 people have received their first dose
- 146,047 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 9 confirmed cases. The figure of 222,699 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 05Mar2021)** | 5 day moving average (to midnight 05Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (20Feb2021 to 05Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (20Feb2021 to 05Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 539 | 488 | 175.6 | 8,360 |
| Longford | 8 | 13 | 379.2 | 155 |
| Offaly | 6 | 11 | 339.9 | 265 |
| Westmeath | 14 | 16 | 270.4 | 240 |
| Dublin | 245 | 225 | 249.5 | 3,362 |
| Louth | 13 | 16 | 239 | 308 |
| Limerick | 26 | 16 | 227.8 | 444 |
| Meath | 42 | 29 | 210.7 | 411 |
| Kildare | 29 | 25 | 189.7 | 422 |
| Laois | 5 | 7 | 183 | 155 |
| Donegal | 0 | 9 | 172.1 | 274 |
| Mayo | 15 | 10 | 170.9 | 223 |
| Galway | 21 | 18 | 166.2 | 429 |
| Carlow | 7 | 4 | 158.1 | 90 |
| Tipperary | 20 | 10 | 151.7 | 242 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 4 | 148.2 | 91 |
| Clare | 6 | 10 | 136.3 | 162 |
| Cavan | 7 | 5 | 130 | 99 |
| Waterford | 8 | 7 | 126.5 | 147 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 3 | 106.9 | 69 |
| Wicklow | 8 | 8 | 86.4 | 123 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 81.1 | 26 |
| Sligo | <5 | 3 | 74.8 | 49 |
| Kilkenny | 9 | 4 | 73.6 | 73 |
| Wexford | 14 | 7 | 68.1 | 102 |
| Kerry | 7 | 4 | 61.6 | 91 |
| Cork | 24 | 21 | 56.7 | 308 |
~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 78.4
- 5-day moving average 488
