The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
There has been a total of 1,922 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Monday 2nd November, the HPSC has been notified of 322 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 63,048* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 156 are men / 166 are women
- 64% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 37 years old
- 96 in Dublin, 35 in Meath, 23 in Cork, 17 in Louth, 16 in Waterford and the remaining 135 cases are spread across 18 other counties.
As of 2pm today 296 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 42 are in ICU. There were 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, Department of Health said: ‘Due to the efforts of people across Ireland, we are seeing improvements with Covid-19. However, we must remember that maintaining this downward trend is now the most crucial thing. The value of our progress depends on continuing the safe behaviour that got us to this position. I urge everyone to keep it up, to ensure these initial trends continue.”
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 led to the denotification of 24 confirmed cases. The figure of 63,048 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 02 November 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today’s cases
(to midnight 02NOV2020) |
14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population
(20OCT2020 to 02NOV2020) |
New Cases during last 14 days
(20OCT2020 to 02NOV2020) |
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| IRELAND | 322 | 228.0 | 10,855 | ||||
| Cavan | 12 | 475.2 | 362 | ||||
| Meath | 35 | 380.4 | 742 | ||||
| Westmeath | 8 | 306.4 | 272 | ||||
| Donegal | 15 | 305.9 | 487 | ||||
| Sligo | 8 | 302.1 | 198 | ||||
| Cork | 23 | 259.7 | 1,410 | ||||
| Galway | 5 | 256.9 | 663 | ||||
| Louth | 17 | 256.8 | 331 | ||||
| Carlow | <5 | 252.9 | 144 | ||||
| Roscommon | 5 | 229.3 | 148 | ||||
| Limerick | 6 | 228.3 | 445 | ||||
| Monaghan | 8 | 221.5 | 136 | ||||
| Dublin | 96 | 219.5 | 2,957 | ||||
| Mayo | 7 | 214.5 | 280 | ||||
| Kildare | 15 | 210.8 | 469 | ||||
| Waterford | 16 | 196.3 | 228 | ||||
| Longford | <5 | 195.7 | 80 | ||||
| Laois | 8 | 194.8 | 165 | ||||
| Clare | <5 | 190.2 | 226 | ||||
| Kerry | 7 | 186.2 | 275 | ||||
| Wexford | 5 | 140.3 | 210 | ||||
| Offaly | <5 | 136.0 | 106 | ||||
| Kilkenny | 8 | 134.0 | 133 | ||||
| Tipperary | 12 | 131.0 | 209 | ||||
| Wicklow | <5 | 106.7 | 152 | ||||
| Leitrim | <5 | 84.3 | 27 |
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