Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1 additional death related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 4,667 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday 28th March, the HPSC has been notified of 539 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 235,078* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 288 are men / 249 are women
- 73% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 262 in Dublin, 32 in Kildare, 30 in Westmeath, 26 in Galway, 21 in Meath, 21 in Offaly and the remaining 147 cases are spread across 20 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 331 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 70 are in ICU. 19 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 26th 2021, 786,569 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 567,023 people have received their first dose
- 219,546 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 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 235,078 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 28Mar2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 28Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (15Mar2021 to 28Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (15Mar2021 to 28Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 539 | 591 | 163.7 | 7,796 |
| Offaly | 21 | 27 | 455.4 | 355 |
| Donegal | 17 | 36 | 282 | 449 |
| Dublin | 262 | 249 | 248.9 | 3,353 |
| Westmeath | 30 | 21 | 218.5 | 194 |
| Kildare | 32 | 39 | 217.1 | 483 |
| Meath | 21 | 29 | 215.3 | 420 |
| Longford | 9 | 7 | 212.9 | 87 |
| Laois | 16 | 15 | 180.6 | 153 |
| Tipperary | 8 | 18 | 166.7 | 266 |
| Cavan | 14 | 13 | 157.5 | 120 |
| Louth | 13 | 18 | 156 | 201 |
| Wexford | 8 | 16 | 146.3 | 219 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 6 | 131.7 | 85 |
| Waterford | <5 | 7 | 120.5 | 140 |
| Galway | 26 | 18 | 117.8 | 304 |
| Wicklow | <5 | 14 | 111.6 | 159 |
| Limerick | 17 | 18 | 99 | 193 |
| Carlow | <5 | 2 | 98.4 | 56 |
| Mayo | 9 | 9 | 65.1 | 85 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 2 | 62.4 | 20 |
| Sligo | <5 | 1 | 61 | 40 |
| Clare | <5 | 5 | 58.9 | 70 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 4 | 47.4 | 47 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 2 | 45.6 | 28 |
| Cork | 15 | 18 | 40.9 | 222 |
| Kerry | <5 | 1 | 31.8 | 47 |
~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 84.2
- 5-day moving average 591
