THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
There has been a total of 2,018 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 19th November, the HPSC has been notified of 330 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 69,802* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 171 are men / 155 are women
- 64% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 37 years old
- 99 in Dublin, 28 in Cork, 26 in Louth, 25 in Meath, 21 in Donegal and the remaining 131 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
As of 2pm today 283 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. There were 13 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 confirmed case. The figure of 69,802 confirmed cases reflects this.
Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 19 November 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 19NOV2020) | 14-Day incidence rate per 100,000 population (06Nov2020 to 19NOV2020) | New Cases during last 14 days
(06Nov2020 to 19NOV2020) |
| Ireland | 330 | 113.1 | 5,384 |
| Donegal | 21 | 266.3 | 424 |
| Limerick | 14 | 217.0 | 423 |
| Louth | 26 | 186.2 | 240 |
| Waterford | 9 | 161.0 | 187 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 159.6 | 103 |
| Offaly | <5 | 137.2 | 107 |
| Meath | 25 | 129.2 | 252 |
| Westmeath | <5 | 128.4 | 114 |
| Dublin | 99 | 119.0 | 1,604 |
| Kilkenny | <5 | 111.9 | 111 |
| Longford | 5 | 105.2 | 43 |
| Monaghan | 7 | 102.6 | 63 |
| Tipperary | <5 | 99.7 | 159 |
| Leitrim | 0 | 96.7 | 31 |
| Mayo | 15 | 95.8 | 125 |
| Carlow | <5 | 93.1 | 53 |
| Cavan | <5 | 91.9 | 70 |
| Clare | 6 | 91.7 | 109 |
| Sligo | 8 | 85.5 | 56 |
| Kildare | 8 | 84.9 | 189 |
| Laois | <5 | 83.8 | 71 |
| Kerry | 5 | 83.3 | 123 |
| Cork | 28 | 73.1 | 397 |
| Wicklow | 18 | 67.4 | 96 |
| Galway | 6 | 66.3 | 171 |
| Wexford | 7 | 42.1 | 63 |
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