Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 5 March

From Department of Health 

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 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

4 deaths occurred in March, 3 occurred in February and 1 in January.

There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 82

years and the age range was 69-94 years.

There has been a total of 4,405 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Thursday 4 March, the HPSC has been notified of 522 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 222,169* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 222,169 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 275 are men and 243 are women
• 67% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 33 years old
• 280 in Dublin, 28 in Meath, 28 in Kildare, 26 in Cork and 19 in Donegal and the remaining 141 cases are spread across 19 other counties

As of 8am today, 426 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 102 are in ICU. There have been 34 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Tuesday (2 March), there have been 460,637 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 316,056 people have received their first dose
• 144,581 people have received their second dose

The COVID-19 data hub 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 82.6
• the 5-day moving average is 518

County	Today's cases (to midnight 4/3/21)	5 day moving average	14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population	New cases during last 14 days
Ireland	522	518	185.1	8,815
Longford	18	13	393.9	161
Offaly	11	19	383.5	299
Westmeath	10	17	272.6	242
Louth	13	21	263.8	340
Dublin	280	224	259.5	3,497
Limerick	14	20	239.1	466
Laois	10	8	211.3	179
Meath	28	27	208.7	407
Kildare	28	23	204	454
Mayo	6	12	187	244
Galway	13	21	185.2	478
Donegal	19	16	177.8	283
Carlow	0	4	166.9	95
Tipperary	<5	11	161.7	258
Monaghan	7	5	159.6	98
Clare	<5	11	142.2	169
Waterford	<5	6	142	165
Cavan	9	6	137.8	105
Roscommon	<5	6	113.1	73
Wicklow	5	8	95.5	136
Leitrim	0	1	87.4	28
Sligo	7	4	77.8	51
Kilkenny	<5	3	73.6	73
Wexford	<5	5	68.8	103
Kerry	<5	5	59.6	88
Cork	26	23	59.5	323