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11 OTHER people with Covid-19 have died in Ireland, health officials confirmed tonight.
Another 366 cases of coronavirus have also been confirmed in Ireland.
This brings the total number of people who have died to 1,995 and the total number of confirmed cases to 68,686 *.
Of the cases reported today:
- 169 are men, 197 are women
- 61% are under 45 years of age
- The average age is 38 years.
- 84 in Dublin, 44 in Limerick, 34 in Cork, 34 in Donegal, 24 in Roscommon, and the remaining 146 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
Source: Department of Health
As of 2:00 p.m. today, 272 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, of which 34 are in the ICU. There have been 14 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.
Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan said he is “increasingly concerned” that the positive trends seen in recent weeks have not been sustained.
The five-day moving average of daily cases has risen from an average of 350 cases on November 11 to 424 today.
“We have two weeks to continue our efforts to reduce community transmission of this disease as much as possible. The lower the incidence, the more flexibility the country will have to make the measures more flexible. “
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According to the Covid Data Hub, 9,830 Covid-19 tests have been performed in the last 24 hours and 75,375 in the last seven days.
The positive rate for the last seven days is 4%, the same as the total positive rate.
* Data validation at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 36 confirmed cases.
With reports from Orla Dwyer
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