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

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
4 deaths occurred in March, 4 in February.
The median age of those who died was 74 years and the age range was 51 – 94 years.
There has been a total of 4,713 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 1 April, the HPSC has been notified of 591 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 237,187* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 confirmed cases. The figure of 237,187 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
  • 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
As of 8am today, 264 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 62 are in ICU. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Tuesday (30 March), there have been 840,561 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
  • 603,802 people have received their first dose
  • 236,759 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 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