Coronavirus: Three further deaths and 525 new cases
By William O'Connor
THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of three additional deaths related to COVID-19.
One death occurred in March and one in January*.
There has been a total of 4,422 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday, March 6, the HPSC has been notified of 525 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 223,219** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 271 are men / 254 are women
- 74% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 214 in Dublin, 37 in Meath, 28 in Offaly, 28 in Limerick and 25 in Wicklow and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 19 other counties***.
As of 8am today, 423 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 103 are in ICU. 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of March 4, 493,873 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 346,256 people have received their first dose
- 147,617 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.
*There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.
**Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 5 confirmed cases. The figure of 223,219 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.
