THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 26 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
Of these deaths, 24 occurred in February, 1 in January and 1 in October.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 58-98 years.
There has been a total of 4,135 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 19th February, the HPSC has been notified of 988 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 214,378* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 487 are men / 499 are women
- 70% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 378 in Dublin, 68 in Galway, 61 in Kildare, 47 in Limerick, 45 in Louth and the remaining 389 cases are spread across all other counties.**
As of 8am today, 719 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 149 are in ICU. There were 36 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of February 17th, 310,900 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 197,609 people have received their first dose
- 113,291 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 10 confirmed cases. The figure of 214,378 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 19 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 19Feb2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 19Feb2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (06Feb2021 to 19Feb2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (06Feb2021 to 19Feb2021) | |||||
| Ireland | 988 | 808 | 250.2 | 11,914 | |||||
| Offaly | 40 | 27 | 409.2 | 319 | |||||
| Monaghan | 11 | 15 | 386.1 | 237 | |||||
| Dublin | 378 | 312 | 354.5 | 4,777 | |||||
| Galway | 68 | 65 | 333.3 | 860 | |||||
| Laois | 29 | 21 | 307.0 | 260 | |||||
| Louth | 45 | 25 | 293.3 | 378 | |||||
| Longford | 12 | 12 | 286.3 | 117 | |||||
| Meath | 39 | 34 | 276.9 | 540 | |||||
| Waterford | 26 | 25 | 273.7 | 318 | |||||
| Cavan | 12 | 9 | 271.7 | 207 | |||||
| Kildare | 61 | 47 | 269.7 | 600 | |||||
| Mayo | 34 | 26 | 257.5 | 336 | |||||
| Limerick | 47 | 36 | 253.5 | 494 | |||||
| Westmeath | 16 | 14 | 247.8 | 220 | |||||
| Carlow | 12 | 8 | 233.6 | 133 | |||||
| Wexford | 15 | 14 | 183.7 | 275 | |||||
| Tipperary | 36 | 26 | 174.9 | 279 | |||||
| Leitrim | <5 | 4 | 156.0 | 50 | |||||
| Donegal | 7 | 15 | 155.2 | 247 | |||||
| Clare | 14 | 12 | 140.6 | 167 | |||||
| Wicklow | 21 | 11 | 128.5 | 183 | |||||
| Sligo | <5 | 4 | 125.1 | 82 | |||||
| Roscommon | 7 | 5 | 119.3 | 77 | |||||
| Cork | 38 | 32 | 107.0 | 581 | |||||
| Kilkenny | 10 | 6 | 95.7 | 95 | |||||
| Kerry | <5 | 2 | 55.5 | 82 |
~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.
