THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1 additional death related to Covid-19.
There has been a total of 1,948 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Sunday 8th November, the HPSC has been notified of 270 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 65,659* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 143 are men / 127 are women
- 69% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 34 years old
- 103 in Dublin, 34 in Limerick, 20 in Donegal, 12 in Cork, 9 in Kerry, 9 in Kilkenny and the remaining 83 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
As of 2pm today 291 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 39 are in ICU. There were 12 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 65,659 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 08 November 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County_Name | Today's cases (to midnight 08NOV2020) | 14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New Cases during last 14 days (26OCT2020 to 08NOV2020) | ||||
| Ireland | 270 | 161.0 | 7,665 | ||||
| Donegal | 20 | 275.8 | 439 | ||||
| Limerick | 34 | 213.4 | 416 | ||||
| Meath | 8 | 212.8 | 415 | ||||
| Cork | 12 | 182.4 | 990 | ||||
| Westmeath | <5 | 179.1 | 159 | ||||
| Dublin | 103 | 173.7 | 2341 | ||||
| Mayo | 5 | 163.2 | 213 | ||||
| Louth | 8 | 159.1 | 205 | ||||
| Longford | <5 | 156.6 | 64 | ||||
| Kerry | 9 | 155 | 229 | ||||
| Cavan | <5 | 156.2 | 119 | ||||
| Laois | <5 | 155.8 | 132 | ||||
| Sligo | <5 | 155.6 | 102 | ||||
| Roscommon | 8 | 150.3 | 97 | ||||
| Carlow | <5 | 147.5 | 84 | ||||
| Monaghan | <5 | 140.1 | 86 | ||||
| Clare | 6 | 138.9 | 165 | ||||
| Waterford | <5 | 137.7 | 160 | ||||
| Kilkenny | 9 | 134 | 133 | ||||
| Galway | <5 | 125.9 | 325 | ||||
| Kildare | <5 | 122.2 | 272 | ||||
| Offaly | <5 | 118 | 92 | ||||
| Tipperary | 8 | 115.9 | 185 | ||||
| Wicklow | <5 | 82.9 | 118 | ||||
| Wexford | <5 | 74.8 | 112 | ||||
| Leitrim | <5 | 37.4 | 12 |
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