The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 17 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
15 of these deaths occurred in February and 1 in December, the date of 1 death is still under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 80 years and the age range was 50-92 years.
There has been a total of 3,948 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 13th February, the HPSC has been notified of 788 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 209,582** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 409 are men / 371 are women
- 71% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 31 years old
- 315 in Dublin, 61 in Galway, 59 in Meath, 42 in Louth, 33 in Kildare and the remaining 278 cases are spread across all other counties.***
As of 8am today, 899 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 160 are in ICU. 34 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
