The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of three additional deaths related to Covid-19.
There has been a total of 4,899 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday 28th April, the HPSC has been notified of 474 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 248,326* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 239 are men / 232 are women
- 71% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 167 in Dublin, 39 in Kildare, 37 in Cork, 36 in Donegal, 29 in Meath and the remaining 166 cases are spread across all other counties**.
As of 8am today, 155 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 44 are in ICU. There were 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 27 2021, 1,452,434 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 1,041,284 people have received their first dose
- 411,150 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 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 248,326 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 28 April 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 28Apr2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 28Apr2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (15Apr2021 to 28Apr2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (15Apr2021 to 28Apr2021) |
| Ireland | 474 | 426 | 124.6 | 5,935 |
| Donegal | 36 | 39 | 295.9 | 471 |
| Kildare | 39 | 41 | 218.9 | 487 |
| Westmeath | 19 | 16 | 189.3 | 168 |
| Offaly | 8 | 8 | 175.7 | 137 |
| Dublin | 167 | 156 | 175.6 | 2,366 |
| Longford | 9 | 3 | 163.9 | 67 |
| Meath | 29 | 23 | 163.6 | 319 |
| Tipperary | 22 | 19 | 152.3 | 243 |
| Leitrim | 8 | 4 | 146.7 | 47 |
| Limerick | 19 | 18 | 122.6 | 239 |
| Louth | 6 | 7 | 112.5 | 145 |
| Cavan | 8 | 8 | 105.0 | 80 |
| Carlow | <5 | 4 | 93.1 | 53 |
| Monaghan | 6 | 6 | 88.0 | 54 |
| Galway | 28 | 17 | 86.8 | 224 |
| Wicklow | <5 | 9 | 85.0 | 121 |
| Laois | <5 | 4 | 81.5 | 69 |
| Roscommon | 8 | 3 | 74.4 | 48 |
| Mayo | 8 | 5 | 69.7 | 91 |
| Sligo | <5 | 2 | 58.0 | 38 |
| Waterford | <5 | 6 | 57.7 | 67 |
| Cork | 37 | 23 | 47.5 | 258 |
| Clare | <5 | 3 | 40.4 | 48 |
| Wexford | <5 | 1 | 28.7 | 43 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 1 | 24.2 | 24 |
| Kerry | <5 | 1 | 19.0 | 28 |
~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.
- the 7-day incidence rate is 63.5
- 5 Day Moving average 426
