Key Findings:
This is the fifth publication in our new series of information bulletins produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), that aims to provide insights on those who have either died or contracted COVID-19, by using data from the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) provided to the CSO by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
Last week, the week ending 12 June, 10 people were hospitalised, down from 660 people at the peak, the week ending 27 March. For the third week in a row there have been less than five people admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). These figures may need to be adjusted if someone’s condition worsens as there is a time lag between onset of symptoms and hospitalisation.
Outbreaks
There have been 10,417 positive COVID-19 cases linked to an outbreak, which is defined as two or more cases in the same location and time. Women account for 59% of all cases linked to an outbreak.
Almost three in ten (28%) outbreaks affected those aged 80 years and older compared with 15% of all cases. The median age of cases related to an outbreak is 55. This peaked to a median age of 73 in the week ending 24 April and has decreased to a median age of 43 in recent weeks.
Nursing Homes accounted for 52% of all confirmed cases related to an outbreak. This has decreased from a peak of 57% in late April.
Hospitals, Residential Institutions and Nursing Homes account for nearly three-quarters of all cases linked to an outbreak. From a high of 30% of cases in early March, travel now accounts for just 1% of all cases related to an outbreak. The workplace has increased from 4% of cases to 12% in recent weeks.
Outbreaks were responsible for less than 30% of the 12,366 cases recorded in Dublin. In Monaghan, Longford and Kilkenny, more than 65% of cases were related to an outbreak.
Independent urban towns make up 24% of all cases related to an outbreak, while 13% of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 occurred in such locations.
Looking at Electoral Division profiles of confirmed cases related to an outbreak, the CSO has found that 32% of cases are in areas of lower income, where the household median income is less than €40,000, despite 25% of all positive cases being in these areas.
Healthcare workers account for 31% of confirmed cases related to an outbreak, a similar rate to all cases.
Week Ending | Hospital | Nursing Home | Private House | Travel Related | Workplace | Residential Institution | Other |
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06/03/2020 | 21.3333333333333 | 13.3333333333333 | 8 | 29.3333333333333 | 6.66666666666667 | 4 | 17.3333333333333 |
13/03/2020 | 24.1379310344828 | 8.62068965517241 | 16.3793103448276 | 21.551724137931 | 11.2068965517241 | 6.46551724137931 | 11.6379310344828 |
20/03/2020 | 24.7983870967742 | 20.7661290322581 | 23.3870967741935 | 5.24193548387097 | 4.03225806451613 | 7.86290322580645 | 13.9112903225806 |
27/03/2020 | 22.4358974358974 | 41.9230769230769 | 12.6923076923077 | 0.384615384615385 | 3.46153846153846 | 15.1282051282051 | 3.97435897435898 |
03/04/2020 | 20.4433497536946 | 50.6568144499179 | 5.74712643678161 | 0.164203612479475 | 2.54515599343186 | 16.9129720853859 | 3.5303776683087 |
10/04/2020 | 14.7080028839221 | 51.0454217736121 | 4.83056957462149 | 0 | 4.68637346791637 | 22.2782984859409 | 2.45133381398703 |
17/04/2020 | 7.88690476190476 | 63.6160714285714 | 4.83630952380952 | 0 | 7.66369047619048 | 14.2113095238095 | 1.78571428571428 |
24/04/2020 | 3.13243457573354 | 75.9714512291832 | 1.34813639968279 | 0 | 6.85963521015067 | 11.9349722442506 | 0.753370340999209 |
01/05/2020 | 7.2905331882481 | 32.4265505984766 | 3.04678998911861 | 0 | 27.9651795429815 | 26.1153427638738 | 3.15560391730143 |
08/05/2020 | 6.62878787878788 | 50.3787878787879 | 5.11363636363636 | 0 | 23.4848484848485 | 11.7424242424242 | 2.65151515151515 |
15/05/2020 | 6.00522193211488 | 23.7597911227154 | 3.1331592689295 | 0 | 53.2637075718016 | 11.4882506527415 | 2.34986945169713 |
22/05/2020 | 12.1212121212121 | 24.2424242424242 | 9.09090909090909 | 0 | 35.6060606060606 | 16.2878787878788 | 2.65151515151515 |
29/05/2020 | 3.88888888888889 | 33.8888888888889 | 8.33333333333333 | 0 | 42.2222222222222 | 6.66666666666667 | 5 |
05/06/2020 | 9.43396226415094 | 37.7358490566038 | 11.3207547169811 | 0 | 30.188679245283 | 9.43396226415094 | 1.88679245283019 |
12/06/2020 | 5.55555555555556 | 47.2222222222222 | 25 | 0 | 11.1111111111111 | 8.33333333333333 | 2.77777777777778 |
Deaths:
The data produced by the CSO in Table 2 is based on the Actual Date of Death. Using this method, the CSO has found that while the number of people who have died from COVID-19 has fallen for the eighth week in a row, Dublin remains the hardest hit. Dublin is the only county to record more than five deaths each week for the last four weeks.
There have been six counties where less than 10 deaths from Covid have been confirmed, these are Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Longford, Sligo and Waterford. It should be noted that there is no county breakdown for probable deaths so there may be more deaths in each county in the overall total.
The virus has claimed the lives of 37 more men than women up to and including the week ending 12 June, while women continue to be more likely to develop a confirmed case of COVID-19.
It also continues to impact the older age groups the hardest, with 65% of all confirmed COVID-19 deaths to date among those aged 80 years old or older. The median age for all deaths remains 83.
Confirmed Cases:
This is the seventh week in a row that confirmed cases of COVID-19 have fallen.
The week ending up to and including 12 June was the second week in a row that Dublin had less than 100 weekly cases since the start of March. There were 59 new cases diagnosed in Dublin in the week ending 12 June, down from the peak of 1,870 cases in the week ending 27 March.
No other county recorded more than 10 new cases in the week ending 12 June.
This is the fifth week in a row that Clare, Leitrim, Longford, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow have recorded less than 10 new cases.
This is the sixth week in a row that Donegal, Laois and Kerry have recorded less than 10 new cases and the seventh such week for Sligo and Waterford.
Almost 40% of confirmed cases are now linked to an outbreak.
While some 3,651 more females were diagnosed with COVID-19 than males, the median age of 43 remains consistent for both women and men.
The 25-44 age group still show the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 8,694.
Health care workers continue to make up almost a third of all cases.
The CSO this week is also publishing a map at Electoral Division (ED) level detailing the number of cases up to week ending 12th June. From this we can learn that there have been 33 of the 3,441 EDs which have had more than 100 confirmed cases with six EDs having more than 200 confirmed cases. These are Clondalkin-Monastary, Blanchardstown-Blakestown, Cavan Rural, Lucan-Esker, Naas Urban and Leixlip. The majority of EDs have had under 5 confirmed cases.
Map of all confirmed cases up to week ending 12/6/2020 where Electoral Division can be associated with CIDR event.
For further COVID-19 related information go to the CSO COVID-19 Information Hub