A dozen new cases of Covid locally among 1062 nationwide

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

All 10 deaths occurred in January.

The median age of those who died is 79 years and the age range is 45-101 years.

There has been a total of 3,317 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Sunday 31st January, the HPSC has been notified of 1,062 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 197,553* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

• 506 are men / 546 are women
• 57% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 41 years old
• 335 in Dublin, 137 in Cork, 73 in Wexford, 58 in Galway,54 in Kildare and the remaining 405 cases are spread across all other counties.

Locally, there is seven new cases in Roscommon, five in Longford and fewer than five in Leitrim