Key Findings for the week ending 10 December 2021:
| Week Ending | Number in hospital at week end | Total confirmed COVID-19 cases |
|---|---|---|
| 01/01 | 508 | 36439 |
| 08/01 | 1153 | 30499 |
| 15/01 | 1846 | 19547 |
| 22/01 | 1969 | 11894 |
| 29/01 | 1552 | 8225 |
| 05/02 | 1258 | 6611 |
| 12/02 | 959 | 5625 |
| 19/02 | 754 | 5131 |
| 26/02 | 574 | 4195 |
| 05/03 | 426 | 3335 |
| 12/03 | 344 | 3612 |
| 19/03 | 336 | 3769 |
| 26/03 | 317 | 3919 |
| 02/04 | 264 | 3437 |
| 09/04 | 212 | 2749 |
| 16/04 | 190 | 2583 |
| 23/04 | 166 | 3163 |
| 30/04 | 139 | 3138 |
| 07/05 | 127 | 2761 |
| 14/05 | 111 | 2463 |
| 21/05 | 107 | 2942 |
| 28/05 | 99 | 2759 |
| 04/06 | 86 | 2764 |
| 11/06 | 60 | 2152 |
| 18/06 | 53 | 2078 |
| 25/06 | 38 | 2219 |
| 02/07 | 46 | 2950 |
| 09/07 | 50 | 3531 |
| 16/07 | 79 | 6502 |
| 23/07 | 106 | 8428 |
| 30/07 | 169 | 8961 |
| 06/08 | 189 | 10901 |
| 13/08 | 221 | 12180 |
| 20/08 | 251 | 12443 |
| 27/08 | 326 | 11863 |
| 03/09 | 353 | 9897 |
| 10/09 | 328 | 9554 |
| 17/09 | 288 | 9096 |
| 24/09 | 297 | 8726 |
| 01/10 | 308 | 8544 |
| 08/10 | 354 | 9840/td> |
| 15/10 | 413 | 12080 |
| 22/10 | 457 | 14621 |
| 29/10 | 481 | 17271 |
| 05/11 | 464 | 24593 |
| 12/11 | 549 | 28138 |
| 19/11 | 643 | 30510 |
| 26/11 | 572 | 31114 |
| 03/12 | 528 | 30659 |
| 10/12 | 511 | 28112 |
| Table A: Weekly Profile of COVID-19 1,2,3,4 | |||||||||||||
| 17/09 | 24/09 | 01/10 | 08/10 | 15/10 | 22/10 | 29/10 | 05/11 | 12/11 | 19/11 | 26/11* | 03/12* | 10/12* | |
| Total Cases | 9,096 | 8,726 | 8,544 | 9,840 | 12,080 | 14,621 | 17,271 | 24,593 | 28,138 | 30,510 | 31,114 | 30,659 | 28,112 |
| % 65 and over | 7% | 9% | 11% | 13% | 13% | 12% | 11% | 9% | 9% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 4% |
| % Not Vaccinated (self-reported) | 47% | 43% | 40% | 36% | 34% | 32% | 24% | 21% | 22% | 21% | 16% | 15% | * |
| Number in hospital at week end | 288 | 297 | 308 | 354 | 413 | 457 | 481 | 464 | 549 | 643 | 572 | 528 | 511 |
| Number in ICU at week end | 73 | 61 | 59 | 73 | 73 | 90 | 97 | 76 | 96 | 118 | 118 | 110 | 110 |
| Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths | 38 | 36 | 48 | 47 | 45 | 56 | 46 | 72 | 41 | 38 | 48 | 51 | 31 |
| * latest week is preliminary and will be revised in the next bulletin | |||||||||||||
| 1 Table includes data as of 15 December 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting) up to midnight Friday 10 December 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 10 December 2021. It is the thirty-eighth 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 31 deaths among confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 10 December and of those, 21 deaths (68%) were people with an underlying condition other than COVID-19.
Most deaths in this pandemic have been in older age groups and in the week ending 10 December 2021, 65% of deaths were among those aged 65 or older.
Dublin was the only county to record more than five deaths in the week ending 10 December 2021.
Confirmed Cases
The number of weekly cases was 28,112 in the week ending 10 December (Note subject to revision as cases are assigned to epi date).
Cases among those aged 14 or younger decreased by 14% on the previous week and made up 27% of all cases in the week. More than one-third (36%) of cases were among people aged 25-44 while one in 20 (5%) was in those aged 65 and over, with cases in the 65 – 79 years age group decreasing by 24% on the previous week.
Dublin (9,608) and Cork (3,329) had the highest number of new cases for the week ending 10 December 2021. Figure 3 shows how although the number of new cases has decreased nationally by 8%, variations can be seen across counties with the highest increase in cases noted in Dublin, up 3% in a week, while the largest decrease of 43% was seen in Roscommon.
Hospitalisations
There were 265 Hospitalisations of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 03 December 2021 and 238 in the week ending 10 December 2021. Of these, 12 were admitted to ICU in the week ending 03 December 2021 and seven in the week ending 10 December 2021. (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 50% of all those hospitalised through the whole period of the pandemic, i.e. from March 2020 to the week ending 10 December 2021.
Males accounted for 52% of those hospitalised and 63% 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 10 December 2021 were employed in the Wholesale & Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles & Motorcycles sector and 12% in the Industry sector.
From Figure 4 we can see that cases are generally increasing across sectors between the week ending 03/12 and the week ending 10/12. However, cases decreased by 11% amongst those employed in the Health & Social Work sector. This sector accounted for 9% of all cases while cases in the Education sector increased by 10% in the week and also accounted for 9% of all cases.
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 October 2021 for cases reported in November and December); 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.
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:
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
Full statistical tables can be downloaded here:
Table 2: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 38 - Table 2-2A (XLS 48KB)
Table 3: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 38 - Table 3-3A (XLS 57KB)
Table 6: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 38 - Table 6-6A (XLS 37KB)