5 COVID related deaths and 456 new cases, including 8 in Kerry

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5 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 15th November, 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; three cases has been denotified.

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
• 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.
• There's been 8 new cases reported in Kerry
• The county figure for Kerry, which is valid up to midnight on Saturday, is up eleven to 1,266.

As of 2pm today 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. 10 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 15 November 2020) (incidence rate based on Census 2016 county population)