COVID-19 LATEST: 58 deaths with over 1,000 new cases

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 54 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

45 of these deaths occurred in February, 5 occurred in January and 4 are still under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 86 years and the age range was 48 - 104 years.

There has been a total of 3,794 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Tuesday 9th February, the HPSC has been notified of 1,006 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 205,939 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 

Of the cases notified today:

476 are men / 524 are women

65% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 35 years old

• 7 day incidence is 138.6
• 5-day moving average is 848

   

As of 8am today, 1,032 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 173 are in ICU. 40 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

 As of February 7, 240,487 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

•  153,654 people have received their first dose
• 86,833 people have received their second dose