Statement from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre:
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*.
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 4th March, the HPSC has been notified of 522 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 222,169** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 275 are men / 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. 34 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 2nd, 460,637 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 316,056 people have received their first dose
- 144,581 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.
*There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.
**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 222,169 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 04 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today’s cases (to midnight 04Mar2021)*** | 5 day moving average (to midnight 04Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (19Feb2021 to 04Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (19Feb2021 to 04Mar2021) |
| 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 |
~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.
- 7-day incidence 82.6
- 5-day moving average 518
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