COVID-19: 34 deaths and 473 cases - less than five in Waterford

34 more COVID-19 deaths and 473 new cases have been announced this evening.
However, only three of the deaths took place this month - with the others relating to January, February and March.
In Waterford, less than 5 new cases were recorded and the county's incidence rate is now at 57 cases per 100,000 people.
The county is doing well when compared with the national average which is now 145.
Meanwhile, for the first time in months, there's been an increase of less than five Covid cases in the majority of Waterford's local electoral areas.
The latest figures show that in the last two weeks up to Monday, four of the county's six areas had an increase of less than five cases.
They are Lismore, Dungarvan, Portlaw/Kilmacthomas and Tramore/City West.
However, City South and City East recorded an additional 34 and 20 cases respectively, giving them both an incidence rate above the national average.
You can read the full statement from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre this evening below:
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 34 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today 3 occurred in April, 4 occurred in March, 19 occurred in February, 5 occurred in January, and 3 occurred in December or earlier.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 33 - 96 years.
There has been a total of 4,769* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday 8^th April, the HPSC has been notified of 473 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 240,192** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:

• 224 are men / 247 are women
• 76% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 29 years old
• 229 in Dublin, 32 in Kildare, 21 in Mayo, 19 in Meath, 30 in Donegal and the remaining 142 cases are spread across 19 other counties***.

As of 8am today, 212 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 53 are in ICU. 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of April 6^th 2021, 961,887 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 679,844 people have received their first dose
• 282,043 people have received their second dose

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said; “Anyone exposed to COVID-19 over the Easter weekend will now be at their most infectious - please isolate and contact your GP to arrange a test if you have any symptoms of COVID-19."

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.

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* Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death. The figure of 4,738 deaths reflects this.

** Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 239,727 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 08 April 2021) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

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 63.4
• The 5-day moving average is 411