Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Saturday 27 February

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 13 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

10 of these deaths occurred in February, 1 occurred in January, 1 occurred in October and 1 date of death remains under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 55 - 92 years.

There has been a total of 4,313 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Friday 26 February, the HPSC has been notified of 738 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 218,980* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 9 confirmed cases. The figure of 218,980 cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

• 356 are men and 378 are women
• 71% are under 45 years of age
• the median age is 32 years old
• 311 in Dublin, 54 in Limerick, 36 in Cork, 34 in Offaly, 33 in Donegal and the remaining 270 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 8am today, 550 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 135 are in ICU. There have been 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of last Wednesday (24 February), there have been 391,355 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

• 254,948 people have received their first dose
• 136,407 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 97.3
• the 5-day moving average is 655