Coronavirus: Seven further deaths and 1,372 new cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of seven additional deaths related to COVID-19.
All of these deaths occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 77 years and the age range is 43 to 94 years.
There has been a total of 2,977 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday, January 24, the HPSC has been notified of 1,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 188,923* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 616 are men / 751 are women
- 56% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 41 years old
- 502 in Dublin, 164 in Cork, 77 in Wexford, 75 in Waterford, 66 in Louth and the remaining 488 cases are spread across all other counties.
As of 2pm today, 1,905 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 219 are in ICU.
There has been 58 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community.
*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification three confirmed cases. The figure of 188,923 confirmed cases reflects this.
