Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 20 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today, 11 occurred in March, 3 in February and 6 in January.
The median ages of those who died was 73 years respectively. The age range was 57-91 years.
There has been a total of 4,651 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday 25th March, the HPSC has been notified of 584 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 233,327 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.*
Of the cases notified today:
- 297 are men / 286 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 34 years old
- 222 in Dublin, 44 in Kildare, 33 in Offaly, 31 in Meath, 29 in Westmeath and the remaining 225 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 317 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 67 are in ICU. 25 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 23rd 2021, 709,348 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 515,800 people have received their first dose
- 193,548 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.
ENDS//
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 15 confirmed cases. The figure of 233,327 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 25Mar2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 25Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (12Mar2021 to 25Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (12Mar2021 to 25Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 584 | 552 | 158.1 | 7530 |
| Offaly | 33 | 30 | 451.5 | 352 |
| Donegal | 26 | 37 | 262.6 | 418 |
| Dublin | 222 | 234 | 236.9 | 3192 |
| Kildare | 44 | 35 | 227 | 505 |
| Meath | 31 | 31 | 217.4 | 424 |
| Longford | 7 | 4 | 185.9 | 76 |
| Westmeath | 29 | 14 | 174.6 | 155 |
| Tipperary | 15 | 20 | 173 | 276 |
| Roscommon | 10 | 5 | 154.9 | 100 |
| Louth | 19 | 19 | 152.1 | 196 |
| Wexford | 21 | 14 | 146.3 | 219 |
| Waterford | 13 | 8 | 137.7 | 160 |
| Galway | 24 | 20 | 130.6 | 337 |
| Laois | 15 | 11 | 129.9 | 110 |
| Carlow | <5 | 3 | 123 | 70 |
| Cavan | 10 | 7 | 112.9 | 86 |
| Limerick | 23 | 14 | 86.7 | 169 |
| Wicklow | <5 | 7 | 80 | 114 |
| Sligo | <5 | 2 | 79.3 | 52 |
| Mayo | 10 | 7 | 58.2 | 76 |
| Clare | 5 | 4 | 58.1 | 69 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 2 | 49.9 | 16 |
| Kilkenny | 5 | 4 | 46.4 | 46 |
| Cork | 16 | 16 | 42.2 | 229 |
| Kerry | 0 | 2 | 39.9 | 59 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 1 | 39.1 | 24 |
~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 85
- 5-day moving average 552
