Total of 99 new cases of Covid-19 in Dublin

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

There has been a total of 2,018 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Thursday 19th November, the HPSC has been notified of 330 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 69,802 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today;

171 are men / 155 are women
64% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 37 years old

There were 99 in Dublin, 28 in Cork, 26 in Louth, 25 in Meath, 21 in Donegal and the remaining 131 cases are spread across 20 other counties.

As of 2pm today 283 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.