8 additional COVID-19 deaths and 591 new cases have been confirmed today.
However, Waterford is one of 7 counties where less than 5 new cases have been reported.
This has brought the county's 14-day incidence rate down from 103 cases per 100,000 people yesterday to 100 today.
However, the incidence rate nationally has risen by almost 2 percent since yesterday - it now stands at just under 167.
In the last two weeks, there have been 116 cases recorded in Waterford.
Today's full statement from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre reads as follows:
Today's cases
- 292 are men and 295 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 31 years old
- 288 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 30 in Meath, 28 in Westmeath, 27 in Laois and the remaining 178 cases are spread across 19 other counties
- 603,802 people have received their first dose
- 236,759 people have received their second dose
- the 7-day incidence rate is 81.6
- the 5-day moving average is 533
County | Today's cases (to midnight 1/4/21) | 5 day moving average | 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population | New cases during last 14 days |
Ireland | 591 | 533 | 166.6 | 7,935 |
Offaly | 24 | 25 | 510.5 | 398 |
Donegal | 25 | 20 | 286.4 | 456 |
Westmeath | 28 | 21 | 258.0 | 229 |
Dublin | 288 | 235 | 252.3 | 3,400 |
Meath | 30 | 31 | 228.2 | 445 |
Kildare | 40 | 36 | 223.4 | 497 |
Laois | 27 | 17 | 222.0 | 188 |
Longford | <5 | 4 | 178.6 | 73 |
Cavan | 9 | 11 | 168.0 | 128 |
Louth | 5 | 13 | 161.4 | 208 |
Tipperary | 11 | 12 | 158.6 | 253 |
Wexford | <5 | 12 | 142.3 | 213 |
Wicklow | 20 | 8 | 108.8 | 155 |
Roscommon | 0 | 2 | 108.5 | 70 |
Limerick | 6 | 13 | 102.1 | 199 |
Galway | 21 | 17 | 100.8 | 260 |
Waterford | <5 | 5 | 99.8 | 116 |
Mayo | <5 | 9 | 85.8 | 112 |
Carlow | <5 | 3 | 68.5 | 39 |
Monaghan | 6 | 6 | 65.2 | 40 |
Leitrim | 0 | 1 | 62.4 | 20 |
Clare | <5 | 4 | 55.5 | 66 |
Cork | 19 | 22 | 49.4 | 268 |
Kilkenny | <5 | 1 | 40.3 | 40 |
Sligo | <5 | 1 | 36.6 | 24 |
Kerry | 9 | 4 | 25.7 | 38 |