Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 12 March

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

4 deaths occurred in March, 1 in February, 1 in January and 4 are under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 67 years and the age range was 41 - 83 years.

There has been a total of 4,518* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 4,518 confirmed cases reflects this.)

As of midnight Thursday 11 March, the HPSC has been notified of 646 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 225,820* * confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(* *Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 225,820 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 311 are men and 332 are women
• 74% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 30 years old
• 243 in Dublin, 80 in Kildare, 45 in Meath, 35 in Galway, 34 in Offaly and the remaining 209 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 8am today, 344 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU. There have been 16 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of last Tuesday (9 March), there have been 553,161 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 396,089 people have received their first dose
• 157,072 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.

• the 7-day incidence is 77.2
• the-day moving average is 523