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An analysis of the 1,383 cases of COVID-19 in Ireland (as of Tuesday 24 March 2020)
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 26 March 2020
- Last updated on: 24 September 2020
- Hospital statistics
- Gender of patients
- Age range affected
- How COVID-19 is spreading
- Healthcare workers
- Hospitalised cases by age group
- Cases by county
The National Public Health Emergency Team has done an analysis of the 1,383 cases notified as at midnight Tuesday, 24 March 2020:
The data reveals:
- 55% are male and 45% are female, with 66 clusters involving 295 cases
- the median age of confirmed cases is 46 years
- 40 cases (25%) have been hospitalised
- of those hospitalised, 47 cases have been admitted to ICU
- 321 cases (23%) are associated with healthcare workers
- Dublin has the highest number of cases at 774, (56% of all cases) followed by Cork with 154 cases (11%)
- of those for whom transmission status is known; community transmission accounts for 51%, close contact accounts for 22%, travel abroad accounts for 27%
Hospital statistics
| Total number of cases | 1383 | |
| Total number hospitalised | 340 | |
| Total number admitted to ICU | 47 | |
| Total number of deaths | 9 | |
| Case fatality rate | 0.9 | |
| Total number of healthcare workers | 321 | |
| Number clusters notified | 66 | |
| Median age | 46 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
Gender of patients
| Gender | Number | % of Total |
| Female | 630 | 46 |
| Male | 753 | 54 |
| Total | 1383 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
Age range affected
| Age Group | Number | % of Total |
| <1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 - 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 5 - 14 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 - 24 | 111 | 8 |
| 25 - 34 | 264 | 19 |
| 35 - 44 | 246 | 18 |
| 45 - 54 | 280 | 20 |
| 55 - 64 | 197 | 14 |
| 65+ | 252 | 18 |
| Unknown | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 1383 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
How COVID-19 is spreading
| Community transmission | 28% |
| Close contact with confirmed case | 13% |
| Travel Abroad | 16% |
| Under investigation | 42% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
Note:
In the event that a person tests positive for COVID-19 and hasn't been abroad or had contact with another confirmed case in Ireland, that's known as community transmission.
In the event that a person who tests positive for COVID-19 can be linked to another confirmed case in Ireland, that's known as local transmission.
Healthcare workers
| Travel related | 67 | 25% |
| No foreign travel | 180 | 64% |
| Under investigation | 36 | 13% |
| Total | 283 |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
Hospitalised cases by age group
| <5 | 2 | 1% |
| 5 - 14 | 2 | 1% |
| 15 - 24 | 16 | 5% |
| 25 - 34 | 38 | 11% |
| 35 - 44 | 29 | 9% |
| 45 - 54 | 64 | 19% |
| 55 - 64 | 56 | 17% |
| 65+ | 133 | 39% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
Cases by county
| Carlow | ≤5 | 0% |
| Cavan | 6 | 0% |
| Clare | 25 | 2% |
| Cork | 154 | 11% |
| Donegal | 12 | 1% |
| Dublin | 774 | 56% |
| Galway | 45 | 3% |
| Kerry | 38 | 3% |
| Kildare | 39 | 3% |
| Kilkenny | 19 | 1% |
| Laois | 9 | 1% |
| Leitrim | ≤5 | 0% |
| Limerick | 24 | 2% |
| Longford | ≤5 | 1% |
| Louth | 20 | 2% |
| Mayo | 14 | 1% |
| Meath | 27 | 2% |
| Monaghan | ≤5 | 0% |
| Offaly | 16 | 1% |
| Roscommon | ≤5 | 0% |
| Sligo | 8 | 1% |
| Tipperary | 27 | 2% |
| Waterford | 22 | 2% |
| Westmeath | 29 | 2% |
| Wexford | 8 | 1% |
| Wicklow | 49 | 4% |
- All statistics measured at midnight on Tuesday 24 March.
≤ means 'less than or equal to'.