Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 6 April
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 6 April 2021
- Last updated on: 7 April 2021
Today's cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
3 of these deaths occurred in January, 2 in February, 3 in March and 1 in April.
There has been a total of 4,727 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Monday 5 April, the HPSC has been notified of 443 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 238,907* 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 238,907 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 239 are men and 203 are women
- 75% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 31 years old
- 208 in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 142 spread across 19 other counties
As of 8am today, 261 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 60 are in ICU. There have been 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Latest update on vaccines
As of last Saturday (3 April) 932,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 660,800 people have received their first dose
- 271,524 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 73.2
- the 5-day moving average is 463
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 5/4/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
| Ireland | 443 | 463 | 157.1 | 7,482 |
| Offaly | 11 | 15 | 407.9 | 318 |
| Westmeath | 10 | 13 | 260.2 | 231 |
| Donegal | 17 | 18 | 246.2 | 392 |
| Laois | 12 | 16 | 244.4 | 207 |
| Dublin | 208 | 213 | 240.1 | 3,235 |
| Kildare | 24 | 27 | 218.9 | 487 |
| Cavan | 8 | 9 | 200.9 | 153 |
| Meath | 20 | 20 | 193.8 | 378 |
| Louth | 8 | 13 | 162.9 | 210 |
| Longford | <5 | 3 | 156.6 | 64 |
| Tipperary | 13 | 10 | 129.7 | 207 |
| Wexford | 8 | 9 | 122.2 | 183 |
| Wicklow | 14 | 15 | 116.6 | 166 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 5 | 100.7 | 65 |
| Mayo | 8 | 7 | 97.3 | 127 |
| Limerick | 9 | 6 | 91.3 | 178 |
| Monaghan | 6 | 5 | 89.6 | 55 |
| Galway | 12 | 14 | 86.8 | 224 |
| Waterford | 6 | 5 | 69.7 | 81 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 1 | 65.5 | 21 |
| Cork | 32 | 27 | 58 | 315 |
| Clare | <5 | 3 | 54.7 | 65 |
| Carlow | 0 | 1 | 42.2 | 24 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 1 | 32.2 | 32 |
| Kerry | 5 | 5 | 31.1 | 46 |
| Sligo | <5 | 2 | 27.5 | 18 |