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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Wednesday 7 April


Today's cases

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

4 of these deaths occurred in April, and 1 in February.

There has been a total of 4,732 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Tuesday 6 April, the HPSC has been notified of 423 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 239,325* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 239,325 confirmed cases reflects this.)

Of the cases notified today:

  • 219 are men and 201 are women
  • 73% are under 45 years of age
  • the median age is 30 years old
  • 199 in Dublin, 41 in Kildare, 23 in Meath, 20 in Galway, 18 in Westmeath and the remaining 122 are spread across 19 other counties

As of 8am today, 232 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 56 are in ICU. There have been 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.


Latest update on vaccines

As of last Sunday (4 April) there have been 936,087 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

  • 663,411 people have received their first dose
  • 272,676 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 73.3
  • the 5-day moving average is 430
County Today's cases (to midnight 6/4/21) 5 day moving average 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population New cases during last 14 days
Ireland 423 430 151.6 7,220
Offaly <5 11 366.9 286
Westmeath 18 11 268.1 238
Laois 6 12 232.6 197
Dublin 199 196 232.2 3,128
Kildare 41 27 214.8 478
Donegal 15 16 213 339
Cavan 5 9 195.6 149
Meath 23 18 188.2 367
Louth 8 13 162.2 209
Longford <5 4 154.1 63
Wexford 16 11 124.9 187
Tipperary 8 10 119.1 190
Wicklow <5 10 117.3 167
Roscommon <5 5 94.5 61
Monaghan 5 4 94.5 58
Mayo <5 7 91.9 120
Limerick 18 9 91.8 179
Galway 20 14 85.6 221
Waterford 9 6 72.3 84
Leitrim 0 1 59.3 19
Cork 11 26 57.3 311
Clare <5 2 46.3 55
Carlow <5 1 42.2 24
Kilkenny <5 2 34.3 34
Kerry <5 3 27.8 41
Sligo 0 1 22.9 15