Press release
Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Monday 25 January
From Department of Health
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From Department of Health
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 7 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
All of these deaths occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 77 years and the age range is 43-94 years.
There has been a total of 2,977 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Sunday 24 January, the HPSC has been notified of 1,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 188,923* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 3 confirmed cases. The figure of 188,923 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 2pm today, 1,905 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 219 are in ICU. There have been 58 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.
ENDS
| County | Today’s cases (to midnight 24/1/21) | 5-day moving average of new cases~ (to 24/1/21) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 24/1/21) | New cases during last 14 days (to 24/1/21) |
| Ireland | 1,372 | 1,926 | 766.2 | 36,486 |
| Monaghan | 53 | 52 | 1,485.7 | 912 |
| Mayo | 34 | 52 | 1,213.7 | 1,584 |
| Louth | 66 | 82 | 1,151.4 | 1,484 |
| Waterford | 75 | 76 | 990.7 | 1,151 |
| Carlow | 9 | 28 | 978.4 | 557 |
| Wexford | 77 | 81 | 905.7 | 1,356 |
| Dublin | 502 | 673 | 862.7 | 11,624 |
| Limerick | 36 | 73 | 829.1 | 1,616 |
| Galway | 26 | 80 | 813.0 | 2,098 |
| Cavan | 11 | 30 | 766.6 | 584 |
| Donegal | 18 | 57 | 739.4 | 1,177 |
| Meath | 45 | 84 | 733.7 | 1,431 |
| Offaly | 33 | 38 | 705.5 | 550 |
| Cork | 164 | 180 | 703.3 | 3,818 |
| Kildare | 45 | 79 | 649.4 | 1,445 |
| Laois | 25 | 24 | 628.1 | 532 |
| Tipperary | 33 | 47 | 583.5 | 931 |
| Clare | 23 | 28 | 583.2 | 693 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 11 | 545.4 | 352 |
| Wicklow | 25 | 43 | 469.0 | 668 |
| Kilkenny | 14 | 19 | 443.4 | 440 |
| Westmeath | 17 | 23 | 417.9 | 371 |
| Sligo | 12 | 21 | 415.0 | 272 |
| Kerry | 15 | 26 | 403.5 | 596 |
| Longford | 9 | 13 | 384.1 | 157 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 6 | 271.5 | 87 |
~The 5-day moving average of the number of new cases provides an appropriate indicator of current daily case numbers within a county. It takes account of any validation of cases for previous days and smooths out daily/weekend fluctuations in case numbers.