400 more cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening, and 7 additional deaths.
The five-day average is 408 -- down from 536 this day last week.
In Waterford, less than five new cases have been diagnosed, bringing the county's incidence rate to 66 cases per 100,000 people.
That's well below the national average which is now at just over 147.
This evening's statement from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in full:
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 7 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
Of the deaths reported today 2 occurred in April, 2 occurred in March and 3 occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 78 years and the age range was 62 - 89 years.
There has been a total of 4,737* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday 7th April, the HPSC has been notified of 400 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 239,723** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 205 are men / 193 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 35 years old
- 162 in Dublin, 61 in Kildare, 26 in Cork, 21 in Galway, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 113 cases are spread across 18 other counties***.
As of 8am today, 226 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 55 are in ICU. 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 5th 2021, 940,883 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 667,182 people have received their first dose
- 273,701 people have received their second dose
The COVID-19 data hub 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.
- the 7-day incidence rate is 65.9
- the 5-day moving average is 408
County Today's cases (to midnight 7/4/21) 5 day moving average 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population New cases during last 14 days Ireland 400 408 147.3 7014 Offaly 12 10 346.3 270 Westmeath <5 10 261.3 232 Laois 13 10 240.9 204 Dublin 162 179 225.6 3040 Kildare 61 35 225.2 501 Donegal 17 16 190.3 303 Cavan 8 7 189 144 Meath 17 20 180.5 352 Longford 6 4 151.7 62 Louth 5 13 142 183 Wicklow 13 10 123.6 176 Wexford 7 10 117.6 176 Tipperary <5 9 109.7 175 Monaghan 7 5 104.3 64 Mayo 6 5 90.4 118 Galway 21 17 89.1 230 Limerick <5 8 85.7 167 Roscommon <5 2 80.6 52 Waterford <5 5 66.3 77 Cork 26 24 58.9 320 Leitrim <5 1 53.1 17 Carlow <5 1 42.2 24 Clare 0 2 42.1 50 Kerry <5 3 29.1 43 Kilkenny 0 1 23.2 23 Sligo 0 1 16.8 11 ~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.
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