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Coronavirus: 575 New Cases; 45 Additional Deaths Reported Today

Tuesday, 23 February 2021 06:58

National news updates on Tuesday 23rd February.

Latest Figures: 

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 45 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

41 of these deaths occurred in February, 4 in January.

The median age of those who died was 84 years and the age range was 55-104 years.

There has been a total of 4,181* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 22nd February, the HPSC has been notified of 575 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 216,300** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 

Of the cases notified today:

272 are men / 298 are women

68% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 32 years old

218 in Dublin, 38 in Galway, 35 in Louth, 27 in Limerick, 26 in Westmeath and the remaining 231 cases are spread across 20 other counties.***

As of 8am today, 693 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 150 are in ICU. 37 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of February 20th, 350,322 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

219,899 people have received their first dose

130,423 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 4,181 deaths reflects this.

**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 8 cases. The figure of 216,300 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.

 

 

County

  

Today's cases (to midnight 22Feb2021)

  

5 day moving average (to midnight 22Feb2021)

  

14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (09Feb2021 to 22Feb2021)

  

New Cases during last 14 days (09Feb2021 to 22Feb2021)

  

Ireland

  

575

  

737

  

240.4

  

11,448

  

Offaly

  

22

  

26

  

441.2

  

344

  

Monaghan

  

12

  

13

  

342.1

  

210

  

Dublin

  

218

  

271

  

339.4

  

4,573

  

Galway

  

38

  

52

  

330.5

  

853

  

Louth

  

35

  

29

  

296.4

  

382

  

Laois

  

10

  

15

  

295.2

  

250

  

Kildare

  

23

  

45

  

269.2

  

599

  

Waterford

  

20

  

24

  

263.4

  

306

  

Limerick

  

27

  

41

  

262.7

  

512

  

Mayo

  

15

  

25

  

255.2

  

333

  

Longford

  

<5

  

6

  

254.4

  

104

  

Westmeath

  

26

  

17

  

253.5

  

225

  

Meath

  

23

  

26

  

242.5

  

473

  

Cavan

  

5

  

12

  

233.7

  

178

  

Carlow

  

<5

  

7

  

209

  

119

  

Tipperary

  

10

  

23

  

180.5

  

288

  

Leitrim

  

<5

  

3

  

174.8

  

56

  

Donegal

  

15

  

21

  

161.4

  

257

  

Wexford

  

6

  

8

  

157

  

235

  

Clare

  

12

  

13

  

149

  

177

  

Roscommon

  

10

  

6

  

122.4

  

79

  

Wicklow

  

8

  

13

  

113

  

161

  

Sligo

  

7

  

5

  

112.9

  

74

  

Kilkenny

  

0

  

8

  

97.8

  

97

  

Cork

  

23

  

24

  

91.6

  

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