The Department of Health has been notified of 48 deaths related to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
45 of those deaths occurred this month.
The median age of those who died is 82, with the age range between 30 and 99.
Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team@hpscireland has today been notified of 48 additional deaths related to #COVID19.
Median age is 82 years and the age range is 30-99 years.
There has been a total of 3,214 #COVID19 related deaths in Ireland.
— Department of Health (@roinnslainte) January 29, 2021
Meanwhile, the Department has also been notified of 1,254 new cases of the virus.
587 of today's cases are identified in men while 658 are in women.
Most people -54% - are under 45 years of age.
The median age is 42 years old.
1483 positive swabs, 6.76% positivity on 21,943 tests.
- Friday, January 29th 2021#COVID19Ireland— COVID-19 Data Ireland (@COVID19DataIE) January 29, 2021
Most of today's cases were identified in Dublin, where there is 437 new cases.
Elsewhere, there are 146 in Cork, 76 in Meath, 69 in Wexford and 62 in Kildare.
The remaining 464 cases are spread across all other counties
Meanwhile, there have been 51 additional hospitalisations in the past twenty-four hours.
In total, there are 1,518 Covid-19 patients in hospitals - 211 of whom are in intensive care.
We started the week with a 6 week extension to the lockdown
Ending it with a 3rd vaccine being approved and positive developments on the Johnson & Johnson one
Some much needed good news 🙌
— Stephen Murphy (@Stephen_Murphy5) January 29, 2021
The 14 Day incidence rate has dropped to 574.7 per 100,000 population.
