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Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Thursday 1 April
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today, 11 occurred in March and 7 occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 59 - 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,705 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Wednesday 31 March, the HPSC has been notified of 761 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 236,600* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 15 confirmed cases. The figure of 236,600 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
As of 8am today, 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 63 are in ICU. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Monday (29 March), there have been 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
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 | Today's cases (to midnight 31/3/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
| Ireland | 761 | 536 | 164.9 | 7,851 |
| Offaly | 38 | 24 | 509.2 | 397 |
| Donegal | 14 | 24 | 281.4 | 448 |
| Dublin | 372 | 223 | 247.6 | 3,336 |
| Westmeath | 21 | 19 | 236.6 | 210 |
| Meath | 55 | 30 | 222 | 433 |
| Kildare | 40 | 34 | 220.2 | 490 |
| Laois | 16 | 15 | 210.2 | 178 |
| Longford | 5 | 4 | 203.1 | 83 |
| Tipperary | 16 | 16 | 163.6 | 261 |
| Louth | 27 | 16 | 162.2 | 209 |
| Cavan | 11 | 12 | 160.2 | 122 |
| Wexford | 11 | 14 | 149.6 | 224 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 3 | 113.1 | 73 |
| Limerick | 28 | 18 | 105.7 | 206 |
| Galway | 20 | 16 | 104.6 | 270 |
| Waterford | 7 | 4 | 103.3 | 120 |
| Wicklow | 0 | 9 | 101.8 | 145 |
| Mayo | 15 | 10 | 85.8 | 112 |
| Carlow | <5 | 3 | 77.3 | 44 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 2 | 68.7 | 22 |
| Monaghan | 6 | 5 | 60.3 | 37 |
| Clare | <5 | 6 | 55.5 | 66 |
| Cork | 43 | 22 | 48.4 | 263 |
| Sligo | <5 | 0 | 42.7 | 28 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 1 | 38.3 | 38 |
| Kerry | <5 | 3 | 24.4 | 36 |