One more person has died after being diagnosed with Covid-19 – 8 additional cases nationwide

By
Jamie O'Flaherty
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The Department of Health has announced that a further one person who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 here has died.

It brings the overall number of deaths linked to the virus here to 1,706.

The Department has also announced an additional eight cases of the virus, bringing the overall number of cases here to 25,303. No additional cases have been recorded in Tipperary. The overall figure remains at 541.

Latest data from the department shows that of the 25,295 cases confirmed as of midnight last Friday, 3,279 cases – or 13% – required hospitalisation.

(**22 of these samples were taken on Monday (n=12) and Tuesday (n=10) and would normally have been reported on Thursday and Friday but, for technical reasons as part of normal laboratory practice at the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL), are being reported today. Contact tracing has already been undertaken for the majority of these cases.)

Cases as on Thursday 11 June

Today’s data from the HPSC, as of midnight, Thursday 11 June (25,249 cases), reveals:

  • 57% are female and 43% are male
  • the median age of confirmed cases is 48 years
  • 3,276 cases (13%) have been hospitalised
  • of those hospitalised, 416 cases have been admitted to ICU
  • 8,123 cases are associated with healthcare workers
  • Dublin has the highest number of cases at 12,179 (48% of all cases) followed by Cork with 1,533 cases (6%) and then Kildare with 1,426 cases (6%)
  • of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 37%, close contact accounts for 60%, travel abroad accounts for 2%

Hospital statistics

Total number of cases 25,249
Total number hospitalised 3,276
Total number admitted to ICU 416
Total number of deaths 1,445
Total number of healthcare workers 8,123
Number clusters notified 941
Cases associated with clusters 10,586
Median age 48

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.

Gender of patients

Gender Number of cases % of total
Female 14,434 57
Male 10,784 43
Unknown 31
Total 25,249

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.

Age range affected

Age range Number of cases % of total
0 – 4 165 0.65
5 – 14 320 1.27
15 – 24 1867 7.39
25 – 34 4230 16.75
35 – 44 4443 17.6
45 – 54 4540 17.98
55 – 64 3232 12.8
65 – 74 1798 7.12
75 – 84 2278 9.02
85+ 2353 9.32
Unknown 23 0.09

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.

How COVID-19 is spreading

Community transmission 37.31%
Close contact with confirmed case 60.31%
Travel abroad 2.31%

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.

Note:

In the event that a person tests positive for COVID-19 and hasn’t been abroad or had contact with another confirmed case in Ireland, that’s known as community transmission.

In the event that a person who tests positive for COVID-19 can be linked to another confirmed case in Ireland, that’s known as close contact.

Hospitalised cases by age group

Age range Number of cases % of total
0 – 4 20 0.61
5 – 14 17 0.52
15 – 24 69 2.11
25 – 34 199 6.07
35 – 44 261 7.97
45 – 54 444 13.55
55 – 64 490 14.96
65 – 74 575 17.55
75 – 84 733 22.37
85+ 466 14.22
Unknown 2 0.06

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.

Cases by county

Note: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre have advised that in the process of validating data and reviewing addresses, cases may be reassigned to another county.

County Number of cases % of total
Carlow 168 0.67
Cavan 860 3.41
Clare 369 1.46
Cork 1533 6.07
Donegal 470 1.86
Dublin 12179 48.24
Galway 485 1.92
Kerry 308 1.22
Kildare 1426 5.65
Kilkenny 346 1.37
Laois 264 1.05
Leitrim 84 0.33
Limerick 584 2.31
Longford 285 1.13
Louth 778 3.08
Mayo 570 2.26
Meath 805 3.19
Monaghan 534 2.11
Offaly 481 1.91
Roscommon 341 1.35
Sligo 128 0.51
Tipperary 541 2.14
Waterford 154 0.61
Westmeath 670 2.65
Wexford 216 0.86
Wicklow 670 2.65

*All statistics measured at midnight on Thursday 11 June.