The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 6 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
All of these deaths occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 63 years and the age range was 41 - 86 years.
There has been a total of 4,319 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Saturday 27th February, the HPSC has been notified of 612 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 219,592 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 300 are men / 311 are women
- 72% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 32 years old
- 289 in Dublin, 45 in Limerick, 34 in Longford, 33 in Galway, 26 in Kildare and the remaining 185 cases are spread across 19 other counties. *
As of 8am today, 554 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 133 are in ICU. 19 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
