Galway Bay FM Newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 13 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
10 of these deaths occurred in February, 1 occurred in January, 1 occurred in October and 1 date of death remains under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 55 - 92 years.
There has been a total of 4,313 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 26th February, the HPSC has been notified of 738 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 218,980* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 356 are men / 378 are women
- 71% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 311 in Dublin, 54 in Limerick, 36 in Cork, 34 in Offaly, 33 in Donegal and the remaining 270 cases are spread across 20 other counties. **
As of 8am today, 550 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 135 are in ICU. 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of February 24, 391,355 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 254,948 people have received their first dose
- 136,407 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 has resulted in the denotification of 9 confirmed cases. The figure of 218,980 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.
Today’s cases, 5-day moving average of new cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 26 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases**(to midnight 26Feb2021) | 5-Day Moving Average of New Cases | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population(to 26Feb2021) | New Cases during last 14 days(to 26Feb2021) |
| Ireland | 738 | 655 | 215.8 | 10,277 |
| Offaly | 34 | 22 | 406.6 | 317 |
| Longford | 14 | 8 | 305.8 | 125 |
| Dublin | 311 | 242 | 290.9 | 3,919 |
| Galway | 32 | 40 | 288.3 | 744 |
| Louth | 7 | 24 | 279.3 | 360 |
| Limerick | 54 | 40 | 275.5 | 537 |
| Laois | 15 | 14 | 264.5 | 224 |
| Monaghan | 8 | 9 | 263.9 | 162 |
| Westmeath | 11 | 20 | 254.6 | 226 |
| Kildare | 23 | 34 | 252.6 | 562 |
| Meath | 26 | 36 | 249.2 | 486 |
| Mayo | 19 | 17 | 233.7 | 305 |
| Waterford | 10 | 14 | 221.2 | 257 |
| Carlow | 12 | 9 | 195 | 111 |
| Donegal | 33 | 27 | 191 | 304 |
| Cavan | 5 | 7 | 189 | 144 |
| Tipperary | 12 | 18 | 186.1 | 297 |
| Clare | 11 | 11 | 149.8 | 178 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 4 | 149.8 | 48 |
| Roscommon | 8 | 7 | 111.6 | 72 |
| Wexford | 22 | 8 | 111.5 | 167 |
| Wicklow | 8 | 8 | 96.9 | 138 |
| Sligo | <5 | 4 | 96.1 | 63 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 4 | 89.7 | 89 |
| Cork | 36 | 25 | 68.9 | 374 |
| Kerry | 19 | 8 | 46 | 68 |
~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.
- The 7 day incidence rate is 97.3
- The 5 day moving average is 655
