The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 12 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
All 12 of these deaths occurred in February.
The median age of those who died is 76 years and the age range is 60-90 years.
There has been a total of 3,686 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 6th February, the HPSC has been notified of 1,024 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 203,568 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 490 are men / 533 are women
- 65% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 35 years old
- 380 are in Dublin, 70 in Meath, 63 in Cork, 55 in Galway, 48 in Limerick and the remaining 408 cases are spread across all other counties. **
As of 2pm today, 1,204 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 178 are in ICU. 35 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
