THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
Of the deaths, nine occurred in March, one 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 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. There were 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 vaccination programme.
* 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.
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 18 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| 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) |
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| 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
