Coronavirus: 52 further deaths and 866 new cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 52 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
33 of these deaths occurred in February, 12 occurred in January, six in December or earlier and one is still under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 83 years and the age range was 55 - 96 years.
There has been a total of 3,846 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Wednesday, February 10, the HPSC has been notified of 866 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There has now been a total of 206,801* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 cases. The figure of 206,801 cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 401 are men and 463 are women
- 65% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 35 years old
- 281 in Dublin, 63 in Galway, 56 in Kildare, 47 in Meath, 39 in Cork and the remaining 380 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 8am today, 984 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 172 are in ICU. There have been 44 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
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