There are 761 new cases of Covid-19 and 18 additional deaths.
The latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre show 7 of this evening’s new cases are in Waterford.
This brings the county’s five-day rolling average to 4 cases per day, while the 14-day incidence rate is now 103 per 100,000 people – well below the national average of 164.9.
Nationally, there are 274 Covid patients in hospital, with 63 in intensive care.
Meanwhile, 372 of the cases are in Dublin, with 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties.
This evening’s full statement reads as follows: 

Today’s cases

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 31 March, the HPSC has been notified of 761 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 236,600* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 15 confirmed cases. The figure of 236,600 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
  • 383 are men and 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. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Monday (29 March), there have been 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
  • 590,688 people have received their first dose
  • 228,988 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.

County-by-county cases

  • the 7-day incidence rate is 81.6
  • the 5-day moving average is 536
County Today’s cases (to midnight 31/3/21) 5 day moving average 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population New cases during last 14 days
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