The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 4,620* confirmed cases of COVID-19. 

As of 8am today, 571 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 118 are in ICU.

NOTES

Day to day variation in the reported number of cases of COVID-19 does not impact on key trend analysis. Analysing over a longer time period such as a week or 14 days, smooths out any variations introduced by processing times, and provides a more stable picture of the trend. 

The number of notifications on CIDR will differ from other HSE data sources, such as positive SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the COVID Care Tracker, for several reasons including: 

• Deduplication of repeat positive tests in the same person 
• Differing upload schedules by the laboratories to CCT and CIDR – uploading of positive records on CIDR by laboratories is a more manual process than uploading to CCT. Uploading to CIDR typically occurs on the day or within one day of authorisation of the laboratory test result 
• The time required for the two-step method of processing notifications on CIDR – this typically occurs either on the day or within one day of laboratories uploading positive records on CIDR 

*Daily case numbers may change due to future data validation.

Statistics are available on the COVID-19 Dashboard 

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