Six deaths, 675 new cases with less than five in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of six additional deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total to 1,896.

As of midnight on Tuesday, the HPSC has been notified of 675 new confirmed cases.

There are currently 33,513 active cases in the country.

Of the cases notified today:

309 are men and 364 are women

65% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 35 years old

199 in Dublin, 104 in Cork, 67 in Meath, 50 in Limerick, 41 in Kildare and the remaining 214 cases are spread across another 20 counties

As of 2 p.m. today, 328 Covid patients are hospitalised, of which 41 are in ICU.

There have been 19 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population in bold and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 27 October 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)

Cavan 12 811.3 618

Meath 67 597.8 . 1,166

Westmeath 14 452.9 402

Sligo <5 425.7 279

Galway 13 370.8 . 957

Cork 104 333.0 1,808

Carlow 13 323.2 . 184

Monaghan 6 322.5 198

Donegal 20 312.8 498

Limerick 50 310.4 605

Longford 8 308.3 126

Kildare 41 289.9 . 645

Louth 26 287.9 371

Kerry 17 283.0 418

Roscommon <5 258.7 167

Mayo <5 257.5 336

Wexford <5 257.1 . 385

Dublin 199 256.9 3,461

Laois 6 255.0 . 216

Clare 15 249.1 296

Offaly 7 228.3 . 178

Waterford <5 224.7 261

Leitrim <5 196.6 . 63

Kilkenny 5 173.3 172

Wicklow 12 145.3 207

Tipperary 20 139.1 222