Coronavirus: Further Nine Deaths Confirmed Today

Tuesday, 6 April 2021 07:45

National News April 6th 2021.

Latest figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

3 of these deaths occurred in January, 2 in February, 3 in March and 1 in April.

There has been a total of 4,727 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday5^th April, the HPSC has been notified of 443 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 238,907* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

239 are men / 203 are women
75% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 31 years old
208 in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 142 spread across 19 other counties. **

As of 8am today, 261 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 60 are in ICU. 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of April 3^rd 2021, 932,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

660,800 people have received their first dose
271,524 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 2 confirmed cases. The figure of 238,907 confirmed cases reflects this.

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 5^th April 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

County	Today's cases (to midnight 5Apr2021)**	5-Day Moving Average of New Cases	14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 5Apr 2021)	New Cases during last 14 days (to 5Apr 2021)
Ireland	443	463	157.1	7482
Offaly	11	15	407.9	318
Westmeath	10	13	260.2	231
Donegal	17	18	246.2	392
Laois	12	16	244.4	207
Dublin	208	213	240.1	3,235
Kildare	24	27	218.9	487
Cavan	8	9	200.9	153
Meath	20	20	193.8	378
Louth	8	13	162.9	210
Longford	<5	3	156.6	64
Tipperary	13	10	129.7	207
Wexford	8	9	122.2	183
Wicklow	14	15	116.6	166
Roscommon	<5	5	100.7	65
Mayo	8	7	97.3	127
Limerick	9	6	91.3	178
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