The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has today been notified of two additional deaths related to Covid-19.
The deaths reported today occurred in March. There has been a total of 4,653 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 26th March, the HPSC has been notified of 624 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 233,937 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.*
Of the cases notified today:
- 309 are men / 313 are women
- 75% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 308 in Dublin, 41 in Kildare, 38 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 29 in Offaly and the remaining 177 cases are spread across 18 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 304 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 64 are in ICU. 21 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 24th 2021, 732,678 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 529,984 people have received their first dose
- 202,694 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.
ENDS//
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 14 confirmed cases. The figure of 233,937 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 26 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 26Mar2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 26Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (13Mar2021 to 26Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (13Mar2021 to 26Mar2021) | |||||
| Ireland | 624 | 573 | 159.9 | 7,613 | |||||
| Offaly | 29 | 30 | 461.8 | 360 | |||||
| Donegal | 38 | 42 | 262.6 | 418 | |||||
| Dublin | 308 | 245 | 241.5 | 3,254 | |||||
| Kildare | 41 | 37 | 222.5 | 495 | |||||
| Meath | 31 | 30 | 217.4 | 424 | |||||
| Longford | 6 | 5 | 195.7 | 80 | |||||
| Westmeath | 20 | 17 | 189.3 | 168 | |||||
| Tipperary | 12 | 17 | 172.4 | 275 | |||||
| Louth | 7 | 17 | 149.7 | 193 | |||||
| Wexford | 16 | 14 | 147.6 | 221 | |||||
| Laois | 17 | 13 | 145.2 | 123 | |||||
| Waterford | 9 | 8 | 141.2 | 164 | |||||
| Roscommon | 0 | 5 | 137.9 | 89 | |||||
| Cavan | 12 | 9 | 127.3 | 97 | |||||
| Galway | 12 | 19 | 124.8 | 322 | |||||
| Carlow | <5 | 2 | 119.4 | 68 | |||||
| Wicklow | 20 | 9 | 101.1 | 144 | |||||
| Limerick | 8 | 13 | 83.6 | 163 | |||||
| Sligo | 0 | 2 | 70.2 | 46 | |||||
| Mayo | 8 | 9 | 56.7 | 74 | |||||
| Clare | <5 | 4 | 53.9 | 64 | |||||
| Kilkenny | <5 | 4 | 47.4 | 47 | |||||
| Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 46.8 | 15 | |||||
| Cork | 21 | 17 | 43.1 | 234 | |||||
| Monaghan | <5 | 2 | 42.4 | 26 | |||||
| Kerry | <5 | 2 | 33.2 | 49 |
~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 87.2
- 5-day moving average 573
