Coronavirus: 10 further deaths and 6,521 new cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 2,307* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday, January 6, the HPSC has been notified of 6,521 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 127,657 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 3,070 are men / 3,432 are women
- 62% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 37 years old
- 2,174 in Dublin, 571 in Cork, 382 in Limerick, 342 in Waterford, 315 in Wexford and the remaining 2,737 cases are spread across all other counties.
As of 2pm today, 1,043 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 96 are in ICU.
There has been 99 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of two deaths. The figure of 2,307 deaths reflects this.
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