Covid-19 cases in Dublin rise in last 24 hours

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

There has been a total of 1,915 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Saturday 31st October the HPSC has been notified of 552 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 62,002 confirmed cases in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

275 are men / 275 are women
63% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 36 years old.

There are 173 in Dublin, whereas there were 87 recorded yesterday, and 86 in Cork, 40 in Limerick, 30 in Donegal and the remaining 223 cases are across all other counties.

As of 2pm today 330 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 47 are in ICU. 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.