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COVID Deaths and Cases

From 28 February 2020 to 01 October 2021

CSO statistical release, , 11am

COVID-19 Insight Bulletins: Deaths and Cases, Series 33

There were 8,322 cases of COVID-19 for the week ending 01 October, a drop of 6% from the previous week

Key Findings for the week ending 01 October 2021:

  • There were 15 COVID-19 related deaths of which 14 were among those aged 65 years and older
  • The number of weekly cases was 8,322, a decrease of 6% from the previous week
  • Dublin (2,503) and Cork (757) had the highest number of new cases
  • Those aged 14 or younger accounted for 23% of cases down from 30% the previous week
  • Of reported cases with a record of employment, 15% were employed in the Wholesale & Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles & Motorcycles sector
  • Cases in the Education sector have risen to 6% of all cases among employees following the third consecutive week-on-week increase

 

 

Week Ending Number in hospital at week endTotal confirmed COVID-19 cases
01/0150836439
08/01115330499
15/01184619547
22/01196911894
29/0115528225
05/0212586611
12/029595625
19/027545131
26/025744195
05/034263335
12/033443612
19/033363769
26/033173919
02/042643437
09/042122749
16/041902583
23/041663163
30/041393138
07/051272761
14/051112463
21/051072942
28/05992759
04/06862764
11/06602152
18/06532078
25/06382219
02/07462950
09/07503531
16/07796502
23/071068428
30/071698961
06/0818910190
13/0822112167
20/0825112281
27/0832612062
03/0935310080
10/093289437
17/092888728
24/092978662
01/103088322
Table A: Weekly Profile of COVID-19 1,2,3,4
  
 25/0602/0709/0716/0723/0730/0706/0813/0820/0827/0803/0910/0917/0924/0901/10
Total Cases2,2192,9503,5316,5028,4288,96110,19012,16712,28112,06210,0809,4378,7828,8628,322
                
% over 653%2%2%3%3%3%4%5%6%8%9%6%7%8%11%
                
Number in hospital at week end38465079106169189221251326353328288297308
                
Number in ICU at week end131415232223304352595559736159
                
Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths5....65791210242933282415
                
* latest week is preliminary
1 Table includes data as of 5th October 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting) up to midnight Friday 1st October 2021 and https://covid-19.geohive.ie/ and is subject to revision
2 Cases data are defined by epidemiological date which is the earliest of onset date, date of diagnosis, laboratory specimen collection date, laboratory received date, laboratory reported date and event creation/notification date. Deaths data are defined by date of death
3 Hospitalisation numbers include those admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 and those who contracted COVID-19 while in hospital
4 Deaths include those who died of COVID-19 and those who died with COVID-19

 

This bulletin covers the period from 28 February 2020 to 01 October 2021. It is the 33rd publication in the Central Statistics Office (CSO) series of bulletins providing insights into those who have contracted or died from COVID-19. The data used is from the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) provided to the CSO by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

Deaths

There were 15 deaths among confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 01 October and 14 deaths (93%) were in people aged 65 and over. Most deaths in this pandemic have been in older age groups. No county recorded more than five deaths in the week ending 01 October 2021.

Confirmed Cases

The number of weekly cases was 8,322 in the week ending 01 October, a drop of 6% from 8,862 in the previous week. Nearly a quarter (23%) of cases were among people aged 25-44 while about one in ten (11%) was in those aged 65 and over. Those aged 14 or younger accounted for 23% of cases down from 30% the previous week.

0-14 years15-24 years25-44 years45-64 years65-79 years80 years and over
30/071538341121
06/081536321331
13/081734291541
20/082127291742
27/082323291852
03/092521281763
10/093317281652
17/093415271752
24/093014301863
01/102315292192

Dublin (2,503) and Cork (757) had the highest number of new cases for the week ending 01 October. Figure 3 shows how although the number of new cases has fallen nationally by 6%, this varies across counties.

% change
Carlow49
Cavan3
Clare73
Cork-5
Donegal-24
Dublin-16
Galway13
Kerry59
Kildare-38
Kilkenny-52
Laois-21
Leitrim-19
Limerick-1
Longford53
Louth-20
Mayo-47
Meath2
Monaghan-9
Offaly11
Roscommon26
Sligo7
Tipperary-1
Waterford66
Westmeath-8
Wexford15
Wicklow-2

Hospitalisations

There were 170 Hospitalisations of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 24 September and 135 in the week ending 01 October. Of these, 15 were admitted to ICU in the week ending 24 September and 12 in the week ending 01 October.  (Note: These figures may need to be adjusted if someone’s condition worsens as there is a time lag between onset of symptoms and hospitalisation.)

People aged 65 and over accounted for 52% of all those hospitalised through the whole period of the pandemic, i.e. from March 2020 to the week ending 01 October 2021.

Males accounted for 53% of those hospitalised and 64% of admissions to ICU since the start of the pandemic.

Sector of Employment

In Table 10, 15% of reported cases with a record of employment in the week ending 02 October were employed in the Wholesale & Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles & Motorcycles sector and 15% in the Human Health & Social Work Activities sector.

Cases in the Education sector have risen to 6% of all cases among employees following the third consecutive week-on-week increase.

In this analysis, the CSO has used Revenue PAYE Modernisation system data to provide insight on employment status of COVID-19 cases. Using pseudonymised identifiers, more than 80% of confirmed cases in the CIDR database could be linked to administrative data sources, and of these, approximately 50% had a record of employment. As well as the strict legal protections set out in the Statistics Act, 1993, and other existing regulations, we are committed to protecting individual privacy and all identifiable information from each of the data sources used in our analysis, such as name, date of birth and addresses, are removed before use and only anonymised statistical aggregates are produced.

By matching the month, the COVID-19 case is reported to a record of employment in that month (or most recently available record of employment, currently August 2021 for cases reported in September and October); a further adjustment has been made to account for those coming off the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) scheme. The results attempt to reflect the industry of an employee when they became a positive case in the CIDR system. However, this does not indicate that the case is linked to an outbreak in the workplace.

25/09/202102/10/2021
Agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)3342
Industry (B-E)388445
Construction (F)238244
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G)484522
Transportation and storage (H)116104
Accommodation and food service activities (I)260278
Information and communication(J)97101
Financial, insurance and real estate activities(K-L)187155
Professional, scientific and technical activities (M)164179
Administrative and support service activities (N)218213
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (O)178181
Education(P)178208
Human health and social work activities (Q)510506
Other NACE activities (R-U)155148
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Impact of the cyber-attack on the HSE IT systems on CSO COVID-19 Insights Bulletin

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) uses data from the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) provided to the CSO by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and data from the HSE’s Swiftcare (A2i) and COVID Care Tracker (CCT) systems to produce this information bulletin. These dataflows were disrupted by the cyber-attack on the HSE IT systems on 14 May 2021.

Reporting from the CIDR surveillance system has recommenced on 02 September 2021:

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/recommencementofreportingfromcidr/

However, other dataflows remain unavailable, so this bulletin does not include all tables or information previously included.

For further COVID-19 related information go to the CSO COVID-19 Information Hub

Table 1 Profile of COVID-19 Deaths and Cases up to and including Friday 01 October 2021

Table 2 & 2A Weekly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Deaths

Table 3 & 3A Weekly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases

Table 6 & 6A Weekly Profile of New COVID-19 Cases who are Subsequently Hospitalised

Table 10: COVID-19 cases with Employment Information

Full statistical tables can be downloaded here:

Table 2: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 33 - Table 2-2A (XLS 43KB)

Table 3: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 33 - Table 3-3A (XLS 52KB)

Table 6: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 33 - Table 6-6A (XLS 34KB)

Further Information

Contact
E-mail: Steven.Conroy@cso.ie