
National news updates on Monday 25th January.
Latest Figures:
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 7 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
All of these deaths occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 77 years and the age range is 43-94 years.
There has been a total of 2,977 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday 24th January, the HPSC has been notified of 1,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 188,923* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
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616 are men / 751 are women
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56% are under 45 years of age
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The median age is 41 years old
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502 in Dublin, 164 in Cork, 77 in Wexford, 75 in Waterford, 66 in Louth and the remaining 488 cases are spread across all other counties.
As of 2pm today, 1,905 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 219 are in ICU. 58 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.
County |
Today's cases (to midnight 24Jan2021) |
5-Day Moving Average of New Cases~ (to 24Jan2021) |
14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (to 24an2021) |
New Cases during last 14 days (to 24Jan2021) |
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Ireland |
1,372 |
1,926 |
766.2 |
36,486 |
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Monaghan |
53 |
52 |
1,485.7 |
912 |
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Mayo |
34 |
52 |
1,213.7 |
1,584 |
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Louth |
66 |
82 |
1,151.4 |
1,484 |
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Waterford |
75 |
76 |
990.7 |
1,151 |
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Carlow |
9 |
28 |
978.4 |
557 |
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Wexford |
77 |
81 |
905.7 |
1,356 |
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Dublin |
502 |
673 |
862.7 |
11,624 |
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Limerick |
36 |
73 |
829.1 |
1,616 |
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Galway |
26 |
80 |
813.0 |
2,098 |
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Cavan |
11 |
30 |
766.6 |
584 |
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Donegal |
18 |
57 |
739.4 |
1,177 |
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Meath |
45 |
84 |
733.7 |
1,431 |
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Offaly |
33 |
38 |
705.5 |
550 |
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Cork |
164 |
180 |
703.3 |
3,818 |
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Kildare |
45 |
79 |
649.4 |
1,445 |
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Laois |
25 |
24 |
628.1 |
532 |
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Tipperary |
33 |
47 |
583.5 |
931 |
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Clare |
23 |
28 |
583.2 |
693 |
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Roscommon |
<5 |
11 |
545.4 |
352 |
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Wicklow |
25 |
43 |
469.0 |
668 |
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Kilkenny |
14 |
19 |
443.4 |
440 |
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Westmeath |
17 |
23 |
417.9 |
371 |
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Sligo |
12 |
21 |
415.0 |
272 |
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Kerry |
15 |
26 |
403.5 |
596 |
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Longford |
9 |
13 |
384.1 |
157 |
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Leitrim |
<5 |
6 |
271.5 |
87 |
~The 5-day moving average of the number of new cases provides an appropriate indicator of current daily cases numbers within a county. It takes account of any validation of cases for previous days and smooths out daily/weekend fluctuations in case numbers.
US:
US President Joe Biden is to reinstate a travel ban to the US for people coming from Ireland.
In his final days in office Donald Trump had announced the restrictions for people coming from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted and were due to end tomorrow.
AFP is reporting the ban will continue to stop the spead of Covid-19, while also adding South Africa to the list due to the emergence of variants.
Testing close contacts:
HSE CEO Paul Reid says testing of close contacts could