Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
7 deaths occurred in March, and 2 deaths occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 76 years and the age range was 64 – 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,585 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 19th March, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 229,831 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 255 are men / 265 are women
- 68% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 34 years old
- 266 in Dublin, 33 in Meath, 29 in Wexford, 25 in Offaly, 24 in Donegal, and the remaining 148 cases are spread across 19 other counties. *
As of 8am today, 328 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 83 are in ICU. 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 17th, 639,586 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 468,328 people have received their first dose
- 171,258 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.
*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 19Mar2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population(to 19Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days(to 19Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 525 | 503 | 150.2 | 7152 |
| Offaly | 25 | 17 | 388.7 | 303 |
| Longford | 7 | 7 | 276.5 | 113 |
| Kildare | 17 | 31 | 237.7 | 529 |
| Dublin | 266 | 226 | 224 | 3018 |
| Meath | 33 | 28 | 210.7 | 411 |
| Donegal | 24 | 20 | 177.8 | 283 |
| Carlow | <5 | 6 | 154.6 | 88 |
| Louth | 13 | 12 | 142 | 183 |
| Tipperary | 13 | 16 | 134.1 | 214 |
| Roscommon | 9 | 7 | 133.2 | 86 |
| Galway | 22 | 25 | 132.1 | 341 |
| Waterford | 12 | 12 | 123.9 | 144 |
| Westmeath | <5 | 9 | 123.9 | 110 |
| Wexford | 29 | 17 | 118.2 | 177 |
| Limerick | <5 | 9 | 116.5 | 227 |
| Wicklow | 8 | 10 | 103.2 | 147 |
| Sligo | <5 | 4 | 90 | 59 |
| Laois | 5 | 7 | 83.8 | 71 |
| Cavan | 5 | 8 | 80.1 | 61 |
| Mayo | <5 | 3 | 77.4 | 101 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 2 | 73.3 | 45 |
| Kerry | 0 | 6 | 56.9 | 84 |
| Clare | <5 | 5 | 53.9 | 64 |
| Cork | 21 | 14 | 45.7 | 248 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 34.3 | 34 |
~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 is 72.9
- 5-day moving average is 503
