Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today 11 occurred in March and 7 occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 59 - 95 years.
There has been a total of 4,705 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday 31st March, the HPSC has been notified of 761 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 236,600* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 383 are men / 373 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 33 years old
- 372 in Dublin, 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties**.
As of 8am today, 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 63 are in ICU. 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 29th 2021, 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 590,688 people have received their first dose
- 228,988 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.
ENDS//
* Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 15 confirmed case. The figure of 236,000 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.
| County | Today's cases (to midnight 31Mar2021) | 5 day moving average (to midnight 31Mar2021) | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021) | New Cases during last 14 days (18Mar2021 to 31Mar2021) |
| Ireland | 761 | 536 | 164.9 | 7,851 |
| Offaly | 38 | 24 | 509.2 | 397 |
| Donegal | 14 | 24 | 281.4 | 448 |
| Dublin | 372 | 223 | 247.6 | 3,336 |
| Westmeath | 21 | 19 | 236.6 | 210 |
| Meath | 55 | 30 | 222 | 433 |
| Kildare | 40 | 34 | 220.2 | 490 |
| Laois | 16 | 15 | 210.2 | 178 |
| Longford | 5 | 4 | 203.1 | 83 |
| Tipperary | 16 | 16 | 163.6 | 261 |
| Louth | 27 | 16 | 162.2 | 209 |
| Cavan | 11 | 12 | 160.2 | 122 |
| Wexford | 11 | 14 | 149.6 | 224 |
| Roscommon | <5 | 3 | 113.1 | 73 |
| Limerick | 28 | 18 | 105.7 | 206 |
| Galway | 20 | 16 | 104.6 | 270 |
| Waterford | 7 | 4 | 103.3 | 120 |
| Wicklow | 0 | 9 | 101.8 | 145 |
| Mayo | 15 | 10 | 85.8 | 112 |
| Carlow | <5 | 3 | 77.3 | 44 |
| Leitrim | <5 | 2 | 68.7 | 22 |
| Monaghan | 6 | 5 | 60.3 | 37 |
| Clare | <5 | 6 | 55.5 | 66 |
| Cork | 43 | 22 | 48.4 | 263 |
| Sligo | <5 | 0 | 42.7 | 28 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 1 | 38.3 | 38 |
| Kerry | <5 | 3 | 24.4 | 36 |
~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.
- the 7-day incidence rate is 81.6
- the 5-day moving average is 536
