18 more people have died due to Covid-19 the Department of Health has reported today, bringing the national death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic to 1,446.
There have also been an additional 219 new cases confirmed as of 11am this morning, but only one additional coronavirus infection has been reported in Galway.
That brings the total number of confirmed cases in the county to 382, out of a nationwide tally of 22,760 cases.
Today’s data from the HPSC, as of midnight, Thursday 7 May (22,495 cases), reveals:
- 57% are female and 43% are male
- the median age of confirmed cases is 49 years
- 2,954 cases (13%) have been hospitalised
- of those hospitalised, 381 cases have been admitted to ICU
- 6,669 cases are associated with healthcare workers
- Dublin has the highest number of cases at 10,948 (49% of all cases) followed by Kildare with 1,317 cases (6%) and then Cork with 1,205 cases (5%)
- of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 61%, close contact accounts for 35%, travel abroad accounts for 3%
In the event that a person tests positive for COVID-19 and hasn’t been abroad or had contact with another confirmed case in Ireland, that’s known as community transmission.
In the event that a person who tests positive for COVID-19 can be linked to another confirmed case in Ireland, that’s known as local transmission.
