Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 2 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 1,915 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Saturday 31st October the HPSC has been notified of 552 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 62,002* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today;
- 275 are men / 275 are women
- 63% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 36 years old
- 173 in Dublin, 86 in Cork, 40 in Limerick, 30 in Donegal and the remaining 223 cases are across all other counties.
As of 2pm today 330 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 47 are in ICU. 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.
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*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 6 confirmed cases. The figure of 62,002 confirmed cases reflects this.
Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 31 October 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today’s cases(to midnight 31OCT2020) | 14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population(18OCT2020 to 31OCT2020) | New Cases during last 14 days(18OCT2020 to 31OCT2020) |
| IRELAND | 552 | 253.5 | 12,069 |
| Cavan | <5 | 590.7 | 450 |
| Meath | 20 | 474.3 | 925 |
| Sligo | 9 | 360.1 | 236 |
| Donegal | 30 | 321.0 | 511 |
| Westmeath | 11 | 321.1 | 285 |
| Cork | 86 | 305.2 | 1,657 |
| Galway | 7 | 297.6 | 768 |
| Louth | 23 | 297.2 | 383 |
| Monaghan | 8 | 288.3 | 177 |
| Limerick | 40 | 269.4 | 525 |
| Carlow | <5 | 268.7 | 153 |
| Longford | 7 | 247.1 | 101 |
| Mayo | 9 | 243.7 | 318 |
| Kildare | 23 | 240.5 | 536 |
| Clare | 15 | 229.8 | 273 |
| Kerry | 12 | 221.4 | 327 |
| Dublin | 173 | 220.9 | 2,976 |
| Laois | 7 | 205.4 | 174 |
| Roscommon | 10 | 204.5 | 132 |
| Waterford | <5 | 204.0 | 237 |
| Wexford | 8 | 173.7 | 260 |
| Offaly | <5 | 162.9 | 127 |
| Kilkenny | 8 | 132.0 | 131 |
| Tipperary | 23 | 130.4 | 208 |
| Wicklow | 13 | 115.9 | 165 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 106.1 | 34 |
