Covid-19 Good Friday: 8 deaths, 591 new cases
THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of eight additional deaths related to Covid-19.
Of the deaths, 4 occurred in March, 4 in February.
The median age of those who died was 74 years and the age range was 51 - 94 years.
There has been a total of 4,713 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday 1st April, the HPSC has been notified of 591 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 237,187* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 292 are men / 295 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 288 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 30 in Meath, 28 in Westmeath, 27 in Laois and the remaining 178 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 264 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 62 are in ICU. There were 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 30th 2021, 840,561 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 603,802 people have received their first dose
- 236,759 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.
- 7-day incidence 81.6
- 5-day moving average 533
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 237,187 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.
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 01 April 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 01Apr2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 01Apr2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (19Mar2021 to 01Apr2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (19Mar2021 to 01Apr2021) | |||||
| Ireland | 591 | 533 | 166.6 | 7,935 | |||||
| Offaly | 24 | 25 | 510.5 | 398 | |||||
| Donegal | 25 | 20 | 286.4 | 456 | |||||
| Westmeath | 28 | 21 | 258.0 | 229 | |||||
| Dublin | 288 | 235 | 252.3 | 3,400 | |||||
| Meath | 30 | 31 | 228.2 | 445 | |||||
| Kildare | 40 | 36 | 223.4 | 497 | |||||
| Laois | 27 | 17 | 222.0 | 188 | |||||
| Longford | <5 | 4 | 178.6 | 73 | |||||
| Cavan | 9 | 11 | 168.0 | 128 | |||||
| Louth | 5 | 13 | 161.4 | 208 | |||||
| Tipperary | 11 | 12 | 158.6 | 253 | |||||
| Wexford | <5 | 12 | 142.3 | 213 | |||||
| Wicklow | 20 | 8 | 108.8 | 155 | |||||
| Roscommon | 0 | 2 | 108.5 | 70 | |||||
| Limerick | 6 | 13 | 102.1 | 199 | |||||
| Galway | 21 | 17 | 100.8 | 260 | |||||
| Waterford | <5 | 5 | 99.8 | 116 | |||||
| Mayo | <5 | 9 | 85.8 | 112 | |||||
| Carlow | <5 | 3 | 68.5 | 39 | |||||
| Monaghan | 6 | 6 | 65.2 | 40 | |||||
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 62.4 | 20 | |||||
| Clare | <5 | 4 | 55.5 | 66 | |||||
| Cork | 19 | 22 | 49.4 | 268 | |||||
| Kilkenny | <5 | 1 | 40.3 | 40 | |||||
| Sligo | <5 | 1 | 36.6 | 28 |
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