Covid-19 Wednesday: 54 deaths, 1,006 new cases

THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 54 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Of today’s deaths, 45 occurred in February, 5 occurred in January and 4 are still under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 86 years and the age range was 48-104 years.

There has been a total of 3,794* Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Tuesday 9th February, the HPSC has been notified of 1,006 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 205,939** confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

• 476 are men / 524 are women
• 65% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 35 years old
• 516 in Dublin, 63 in Cork, 46 in Galway, 43 in Meath, 36 in Louth and the remaining 302 cases are spread across all other counties.**

As of 8am today, 1,032 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 173 are in ICU. There were 40 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of February 7, 240,487 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 153,654 people have received their first dose
• 86,833 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 12 deaths. The figure of 3,794 deaths reflects this.

** Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 7 cases. The figure of 205,939 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 09 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.

• 7 day incidence is 138.6
• 5-day moving average is 848