Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 2 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
These 2 deaths occurred in March.
There has been a total of 4,587 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 20th March, the HPSC has been notified of 769* confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 230,599 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 381 are men / 378 are women
- 75% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 284 in Dublin, 67 in Donegal, 47 in Offaly, 45 in Meath, 44 in Kildare, and the remaining 282 cases are spread across 20 other counties. **
As of 8am today, 360 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 82 are in ICU. 19 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 18th, 654,251 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 478,725 people have received their first dose
- 175,526 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 led to the denotification of 1 confirmed case. The figure of 230,599 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 20Mar2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population(to 20Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days(to 20Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 769 | 587 | 155.3 | 7395 |
| Offaly | 47 | 26 | 410.5 | 320 |
| Longford | 14 | 9 | 296 | 121 |
| Kildare | 44 | 37 | 249 | 554 |
| Dublin | 284 | 251 | 229.2 | 3,088 |
| Meath | 45 | 32 | 215.3 | 420 |
| Donegal | 67 | 30 | 211.7 | 337 |
| Roscommon | 18 | 10 | 154.9 | 100 |
| Carlow | 5 | 6 | 147.5 | 84 |
| Waterford | 32 | 17 | 145.5 | 169 |
| Tipperary | 30 | 20 | 141 | 225 |
| Westmeath | 17 | 10 | 138.6 | 123 |
| Galway | 26 | 28 | 135.2 | 349 |
| Louth | 10 | 11 | 134.2 | 173 |
| Wexford | 20 | 19 | 122.2 | 183 |
| Limerick | 36 | 15 | 121.1 | 236 |
| Sligo | 9 | 6 | 100.7 | 66 |
| Wicklow | 8 | 9 | 91.3 | 130 |
| Cavan | <5 | 7 | 85.3 | 65 |
| Laois | 10 | 8 | 85 | 72 |
| Mayo | 6 | 4 | 72 | 94 |
| Monaghan | 0 | 2 | 70 | 43 |
| Clare | 6 | 5 | 53.9 | 64 |
| Kerry | 6 | 6 | 52.8 | 78 |
| Cork | 18 | 15 | 46.6 | 253 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 1 | 37.4 | 12 |
| Kilkenny | 6 | 3 | 36.3 | 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.
- 7-day incidence is 81
- 5-day moving average is 587
