Press release
Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Friday 18 February
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 18 February 2022
- Last updated on: 21 February 2022
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 4,821 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In addition, on Thursday 17 February, 3,772* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
As of 8am today, 591 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 57 are in ICU.
Notes
- These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.
Data on the epidemiology of COVID-19 cases and deaths is available on the HPSC’s Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Ireland data hub.
Additional data on vaccination, hospital, ICU and local electoral areas is available on Ireland’s COVID-19 data hub.