Covid-19 Tuesday: 33 deaths, 744 new cases

THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 33 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Of these deaths, 31 occurred in February and 2 in January.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 42-105 years.

There has been a total of 3,980* Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 15th February, the HPSC has been notified of 744 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 211,113** confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

• 373 are male/ 366 are female
• 68% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 31 years old
• 301 in Dublin, 77 in Galway, 37 in Waterford, 36 in Offaly, 32 in Kildare and the remaining 261 cases are spread across all other counties.***

As of 8am today, 861 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 159 are in ICU. There were 51 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of 13^th February, 268,551 doses of the vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 176,926 people have received their first dose
• 91,625 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 1 death. The figure of 3,980 deaths reflects this.

**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 33 confirmed cases. The figure of 211,113 confirmed cases 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 15 February 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

~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.