Covid -19 update: Total of 105 new cases in Dublin

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of five additional deaths related to COVID-19. All deaths reported today occurred in November.

There has been a total of 1,984 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Sunday, November 15, the HPSC has been notified of 456 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 68,356 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today; 199 are men / 257 are women
69% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 34 years old

There were 105 in Dublin, 85 in Limerick, 43 in Cork, 38 in Meath, 25 in Clare and the remaining 160 cases are spread across 21 other counties.

As of 2pm today 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. 10 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.