15 new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Clare among 574 nationally and 56 further deaths.
Clare’s 14 day incidence rate has increased to 159.1 following the addition of 15 new cases.
Notification has been issued of 56 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
31 of these deaths occurred in February, 13 occurred in January, 3 in December or earlier, while a further 9 are under investigation. The median age of those who died was 82 years and the age range was 16 – 97 years. There has been a total of 4,237 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
Of the 574 new cases, 175 are in Dublin, 57 in Limerick, 43 in Kildare, 37 in Galway, 35 in Meath and the remaining 227 cases are spread across 18 other counties.
As of 8am today, 652 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 137 are in ICU. 35 additional hospitalisations were recorded in the past 24 hours.
As of February 21, 353,971 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “We continue to see good progress, but this needs to be sustained. It is vital that we get our children back to school over the coming weeks. A key part of making this a success will be our continued collective buy-in to the public health measures that are tried and tested. Stay at home, work from home where possible.”
“Given the increased transmissibility of the virus now, we must continue to limit our social contacts and do all we can to starve this disease of opportunities to spread.”
