Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Wednesday 2 February
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 2 February 2022
- Last updated on: 3 February 2022
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5,940 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In addition, on Tuesday 1 February, 6,620* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
There has been a total of 6,228 deaths related to COVID-19 notified in Ireland. This includes 92 deaths newly notified in the past week (since last Wednesday).
As of 8am today, 630 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 65 are in ICU.
Notes
Given the current high incidence, the daily case number is based on positive SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the HSE COVID Care Tracker the preceding day. These data are provisional. The HPSC and surveillance partners will continue to notify and process cases and outbreaks of COVID-19 on CIDR over this period.
- These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.