The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 79 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
78 deaths occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 82 years and the age range is 56-98 years.
There has been a total of 3,292* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 29th January, the HPSC has been notified of 1,414 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 195,303** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 667 are men / 742 are women
- 59% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 39 years old
- 608 in Dublin, 105 in Cork, 96 in Galway, 65 in Meath, 59 in Donegal and the remaining 481 cases are spread across all other counties***
As of 2pm today, 1,492 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 211 are in ICU. 55 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
