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Coronavirus: 16 Deaths, 543 Cases Today

Saturday, 13 March 2021 10:06

National news updates on Saturday 13th March.

Latest figures:

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 16 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

3 deaths occurred in March, 12 in February, 1 in January.

The median age of those who died was 88 years and the age range was 59 – 96 years.

There has been a total of 4,534 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday 12th March, the HPSC has been notified of 543 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 226,358* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

  • 269 are men / 271 are women
  • 73% are under 45 years of age
  • The median age is 29 years old
  • 235 in Dublin, 50 in Kildare, 39 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 28 in Galway and the remaining 160 cases are spread across 20 other counties**

 

As of 8am today, 340 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 85 are in ICU. 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 

As of March 10th, 570,391 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

 

  • 409,662 people have received their first dose
  • 160,729 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 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 226,258 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 12 March 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

 

County

  

Today's cases (to midnight 12Mar2021)

  

5 day moving average (to midnight 12Mar2021)

  

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021)

  

New Cases during last 14 days (27Feb2021 to 12Mar2021)

  

Ireland

  

543

  

545

  

155.3

  

7,397

  

Longford

  

<5

  

11

  

437.9

  

179

  

Offaly

  

21

  

23

  

351.5

  

274

  

Dublin

  

235

  

223

  

234.4

  

3,158

  

Meath

  

31

  

33

  

211.2

  

412

  

Kildare

  

50

  

52

  

209.9

  

467

  

Westmeath

  

7

  

8

  

192.6

  

171

  

Louth

  

10

  

14

  

183.9

  

237

  

Limerick

  

15

  

23

  

165.7

  

323

  

Donegal

  

39

  

23

  

145.1

  

231

  

Mayo

  

12

  

10

  

128

  

167

  

Galway

  

28

  

24

  

121.7

  

314

  

Roscommon

  

11

  

7

  

117.7

  

76

  

Tipperary

  

12

  

10

  

115.3

  

184

  

Carlow

  

<5

  

4

  

110.7

  

63

  

Laois

  

<5

  

4

  

103.9

  

88

  

Wicklow

  

<5

  

8

  

96.2

  

137

  

Monaghan

  

0

  

4

  

94.5

  

58

  

Waterford

  

5

  

10

  

89.5

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