Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 26 February

1. Today's cases
2. Numbers of people vaccinated
3. County-by-county cases and incidence rates

Today's cases

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 29 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

17 of these deaths occurred in February, and 12 occurred in January.

The median age of those who died was 77 years and the age range was 29 - 95 years.

There has been a total of 4,300 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Thursday 25 February, the HPSC has been notified of 776 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 218,251* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted

in the denotification of 3 confirmed cases. The figure of 218,251 cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 394 are men and 379 are women
• 67% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 34 years old
• 278 in Dublin, 69 in Galway, 57 in Meath, 52 in Kildare, 48 in Donegal and the remaining 272 cases are spread across all other counties

As of 8am today, 574 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 136 are in ICU. There have been 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Tuesday (23 February), there have been 373,280 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 238,841 people have received their first dose
• 134,439 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.

County-by-county cases and incidence rates

• the 7 day incidence is 102.6
• the 5-day moving average is 644

County	Today's cases (to midnight 25/2/21)	5 day moving average	14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population	New cases during last 14 days
Ireland	776	644	223	10,619
Offaly	17	19	395.1	308
Galway	69	38	328.2	847
Dublin	278	235	299.7	4,038
Louth	45	29	286.3	369
Longford	5	6	278.9	114
Laois	15	13	277.5	235
Monaghan	8	8	275.3	169
Limerick	39	38	270.9	528
Westmeath	13	20	269.2	239
Kildare	52	37	261.6	582
Mayo	20	17	252.9	330
Waterford	9	15	243.6	283
Meath	57	35	240.5	469
Carlow	13	8	202	115
Cavan	8	8	193	147
Tipperary	22	19	193	308
Donegal	48	27	187.2	298
Leitrim	<5	3	181	58
Clare	8	12	156.5	186
Wexford	<5	6	129.6	194
Wicklow	9	10	108.1	154
Roscommon	<5	5	103.8	67
Sligo	5	5	100.7	66
Kilkenny	6	5	91.7	91
Cork	20	21	68.5	372
Kerry	<5	5	35.2	52