Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 16 March
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 16 March 2021
- Last updated on: 18 March 2021
Today's cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
17 deaths occurred in March, and 1 in February.
The median age of those who died was 78 years and the age range was 55 – 102 years.
There has been a total of 4,552 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Monday 15 March, the HPSC has been notified of 349 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 227,663* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 227,663 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 172 are men and 177 are women
- 70% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 33 years old
- 156 in Dublin, 23 in Meath, 19 in Donegal, 15 in Louth, 14 in Kildare and the remaining 122 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 8am today, 355 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 88 are in ICU. There have been 36 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Numbers of people vaccinated
As of last Saturday (13 March), there have been 615,934 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
- 451,589 people have received their first dose
- 164,345 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 and incidence rates
- the 7-day incidence rate is 78.1
- the 5-day moving average is 499
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 15/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
| Ireland | 349 | 499 | 148.1 | 7,052 |
| Offaly | <5 | 21 | 347.6 | 271 |
| Longford | <5 | 5 | 345 | 141 |
| Kildare | 14 | 45 | 227 | 505 |
| Dublin | 156 | 202 | 223.3 | 3,008 |
| Meath | 23 | 31 | 215.3 | 420 |
| Louth | 15 | 13 | 155.2 | 200 |
| Donegal | 19 | 21 | 152 | 242 |
| Westmeath | 11 | 11 | 147.6 | 131 |
| Limerick | 5 | 13 | 133.4 | 260 |
| Carlow | <5 | 7 | 130 | 74 |
| Tipperary | 7 | 15 | 117.2 | 187 |
| Galway | 14 | 27 | 113.2 | 292 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 7 | 105.4 | 68 |
| Waterford | 8 | 9 | 103.3 | 120 |
| Mayo | <5 | 7 | 102.7 | 134 |
| Wicklow | 14 | 10 | 99.7 | 142 |
| Wexford | 11 | 12 | 86.8 | 130 |
| Laois | <5 | 3 | 86.2 | 73 |
| Monaghan | <5 | 3 | 83.1 | 51 |
| Sligo | <5 | 3 | 80.9 | 53 |
| Clare | <5 | 5 | 69.9 | 83 |
| Cavan | 7 | 3 | 67 | 51 |
| Kerry | 5 | 5 | 53.5 | 79 |
| Cork | 14 | 19 | 51.8 | 281 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 2 | 45.3 | 45 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 1 | 34.3 | 11 |