13 more COVID deaths, over 1,200 new cases including 28 in Kerry

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 13 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

There has now been a total of 1,865 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Monday 19th October, the HPSC has been notified of 1,269 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 52,256 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland, six cases have been de-notified.

Of the cases notified today;

• 657 are men / 609 are women
• 63% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 34 years old
• 221 in Meath, 203 in Dublin, 116 in Cork, 80 in Cavan and 649 and the remaining 649 cases are spread across all remaining counties.
• There has been 28 more cases confirmed in Kerry.

The county figures, which are valid until midnight on Sunday October 18th, show an increase of 47 cases in Kerry to bring the total to 800.

As of 2pm today, 312 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 34 are in ICU. 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Today’s cases, 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population and new cases in last 14 days (as of midnight 19 October 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)