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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Monday 19 April


Today's cases

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of no additional deaths related to COVID-19.

There has been a total of 4,836 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Sunday 18 April, the HPSC has been notified of 403 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

There has now been a total of 243,911 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 208 are men and 192 are women
  • 73% are under 45 years of age
  • the median age is 31 years old
  • 174 in Dublin, 34 in Meath, 20 in Kildare, 18 in Mayo, 16 in Cork and the remaining 141 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 8am today, 183 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 50 are in ICU. There have been 7 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.


Latest update on vaccines

As of last Saturday (17 April) there have been 1,204,063 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

  • 852,189 people have received their first dose
  • 351,874 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

  • the 7-day incidence rate is 54.7
  • the 5-day moving average is 364
County Today's cases (to midnight 18/4/21) 5 day moving average 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population New cases during last 14 days
Ireland 403 364 115.0 5,478
Donegal 11 25 204.2 325
Kildare 20 25 200.9 447
Offaly 6 9 192.4 150
Dublin 174 139 172.3 2,321
Meath 34 26 161.0 314
Longford <5 4 149.2 61
Westmeath 10 10 136.3 121
Laois <5 7 129.9 110
Cavan 8 6 122.1 93
Leitrim 12 4 103 33
Monaghan <5 4 97.7 60
Mayo 18 8 93.5 122
Louth 14 10 88.5 114
Roscommon 5 4 86.8 56
Limerick 7 14 86.2 168
Galway 14 16 84.9 219
Wicklow 9 7 75.8 108
Waterford <5 7 69.7 81
Carlow 5 4 66.7 38
Tipperary 8 6 58.9 94
Wexford <5 5 53.4 80
Kerry <5 4 39.9 59
Cork 16 13 39.8 216
Clare <5 3 38.7 46
Sligo 12 3 32.0 21
Kilkenny 0 2 21.2 21