Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
9 deaths occurred in March, 1 date of death remains under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 75 years and the age range was 45 – 88 years.
There has been a total of 4,576 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday 18th March, the HPSC has been notified of 507 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 229,306* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 249 are men / 255 are women
- 70% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 33 years old
- 216 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 29 in Galway, 24 in Offaly, 18 in Tipperary, and the remaining 180 cases are spread across 20 other counties. **
As of 8am today, 336 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU. 43 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 16th, 632,359 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 463,500 people have received their first dose
- 168,859 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.
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* Validation of data has resulted in the re-classification of 3 probable cases to confirmed status. The figure of 229,306 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 18Mar2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 18Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (to 18Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 507 | 513 | 150.5 | 7165 |
| Offaly | 24 | 14 | 364.3 | 284 |
| Longford | 15 | 5 | 278.9 | 114 |
| Kildare | 40 | 35 | 243.6 | 542 |
| Dublin | 216 | 219 | 222.4 | 2996 |
| Meath | 17 | 31 | 215.3 | 420 |
| Carlow | 7 | 10 | 163.4 | 93 |
| Donegal | 16 | 19 | 163.3 | 260 |
| Louth | 7 | 13 | 142.8 | 184 |
| Tipperary | 18 | 22 | 138.5 | 221 |
| Westmeath | 5 | 9 | 137.4 | 122 |
| Galway | 29 | 27 | 130.6 | 337 |
| Limerick | 11 | 12 | 128.3 | 250 |
| Roscommon | 6 | 6 | 122.4 | 79 |
| Waterford | 10 | 11 | 119.6 | 139 |
| Wexford | 15 | 13 | 108.2 | 162 |
| Wicklow | 12 | 12 | 103.2 | 147 |
| Sligo | 6 | 5 | 90 | 59 |
| Mayo | <5 | 2 | 87.4 | 114 |
| Laois | 16 | 6 | 83.8 | 71 |
| Cavan | <5 | 8 | 81.4 | 62 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 3 | 76.6 | 47 |
| Kerry | 7 | 7 | 61.6 | 91 |
| Clare | 5 | 6 | 57.2 | 68 |
| Cork | 15 | 14 | 46.1 | 250 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 3 | 42.3 | 42 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |
~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 73.3
- 5-day moving average is 513
