Coronavirus: One further death and 434 new cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of one additional death related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 4,867 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday, April 22, the HPSC has been notified of 434 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There has now been a total of 245,743* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 228 are men / 204 are women
- 74% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 217 in Dublin, 30 in Kildare, 30 in Cork, 27 in Limerick, 21 Donegal and the remaining 109 cases are spread across 20 other counties.**
As of 8am today, 166 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 48 are in ICU.
There has been 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 21, some 1,275,828 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland: 904,774 people have received their first dose and 371,054 people have received their second dose.
The COVID-19 Dashboard 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.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of one confirmed case. The figure of 245,743 confirmed cases reflects this.
**County data should be considered provisional as the national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR) is a dynamic system and case details are continually being validated and updated.
TAGS news
