The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 20 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 2,327 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 7 January, the HPSC has been notified of 8,248 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 135,884* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
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(*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 21 confirmed cases. The figure of 135,884 confirmed cases reflects this.)
Of the cases notified today:
- 3,834 are men and 4,375 are women
- 61% are under 45 years of age
- the median age is 38 years old
- 3,013 in Dublin, 1,374 in Cork, 538 in Limerick, 314 in Kildare, 310 in Donegal and the remaining 2,699 cases are spread across all other counties
As of 2pm today, 1,180 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 109 are in ICU. There have been 116 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours
