THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 6 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
5 of these deaths occurred in February, and one occurred in January.
The median age of those who died was 84 years and the age range was 75-95 years.
There has been a total of 3,687* Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday 7th February, the HPSC has been notified of 829 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 204,397 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 401 are men / 426 are women
- 63% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 35 years old
- 386 in Dublin, 39 in Meath, 36 in Cork, 35 in Kildare, 32 in Louth and the remaining 301 cases are spread across 20 other counties.**
As of 8am today, 1,212 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 176 are in ICU. There were 39 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of February 5, 230,776 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 151,212 people have received their first dose
- 79,554 people have received their second dose
The COVID-19 Dashboard 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of five deaths. The figure of 3,687 deaths reflects this.
**County data should be considered provisional as the national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR) is a dynamic system and case details are continually being validated and updated.
Today’s cases, 5-day moving average of new cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 07 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)
County | Today's cases (to midnight 07Feb2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 07Feb2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (25Jan2021 to 07Feb2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (25Jan2021 to 07Feb2021) | |||||
Ireland | 829 | 1,008 | 326.9 | 15,566 | |||||
Monaghan | 12 | 27 | 692.3 | 425 | |||||
Carlow | 30 | 21 | 505.9 | 288 | |||||
Waterford | 9 | 29 | 446.7 | 519 | |||||
Louth | 32 | 30 | 444.6 | 573 | |||||
Wexford | 11 | 37 | 404.8 | 606 | |||||
Dublin | 386 | 356 | 403.8 | 5,440 | |||||
Mayo | 17 | 27 | 364 | 475 | |||||
Meath | 39 | 50 | 348.1 | 679 | |||||
Galway | 28 | 53 | 336.7 | 869 | |||||
Offaly | 12 | 15 | 320.7 | 250 | |||||
Limerick | 32 | 44 | 316.1 | 616 | |||||
Donegal | 9 | 29 | 308.4 | 491 | |||||
Kildare | 35 | 49 | 298.4 | 664 | |||||
Longford | 7 | 9 | 293.6 | 120 | |||||
Cavan | 32 | 19 | 283.6 | 216 | |||||
Laois | 11 | 18 | 281 | 238 | |||||
Cork | 36 | 83 | 249.6 | 1,355 | |||||
Westmeath | 15 | 18 | 249 | 221 | |||||
Sligo | <5 | 10 | 241.1 | 158 | |||||
Wicklow | 10 | 19 | 221.2 | 315 | |||||
Tipperary | 27 | 17 | 213.1 | 340 | |||||
Clare | 10 | 13 | 173.4 | 206 | |||||
Leitrim | 0 | 4 | 156 | 50 | |||||
Kilkenny | 14 | 11 | 151.2 | 150 | |||||
Kerry | 5 | 14 | 146.9 | 217 | |||||
Roscommon | 6 | 7 | 131.7 | 85 |
~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.
- 7 day incidence is 145.5
- 5-day moving average is 1,008
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