Press release
Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Wednesday 9 March
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 9 March 2022
- Last updated on: 10 March 2022
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1,715 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19. In addition, on Tuesday 8 March, 7,355* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
As of 8am today, 829 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 47 are in ICU.
Notes
- These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.
Data on the epidemiology of COVID-19 cases and deaths is available on the HPSC’s Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Ireland data hub.
Additional data on vaccination, hospital, ICU and local electoral areas is available on Ireland’s COVID-19 data hub.