The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 17 additional deaths related to COVID-19. 16 of today’s reported deaths occurred in January.
There has been a total of 2,282 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Monday 4th January, the HPSC has been notified of 5,325 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 113,322 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
• 2,550 are men / 2,769 are women
• 63% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 36 years old
• 1,931 in Dublin, 767 in Cork, 323 in Kildare, 322 in Limerick, 238 in Donegal and the remaining 1,744 cases are spread across all other counties.
As of 2pm today, 840 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 76 are in ICU. 102 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours
Locally, 29 new cases have been recorded in Roscommon and 13 in Leitrim. Five cases have been recorded in Longford - its lowest total in days
