56 deaths from Covid-19, 877 cases in Meath - CSO
Coronavirus has claimed the lives of 56 people in Meath according to latest CSO figures released today Meath with a total number of Covid cases standing at 877. The median age of those who passed away from the virus was 81 while the media age of those who contracted the disease is 47.
Key findings in the report which generated data up to 21st August revealed:
- Dublin and Kildare made up 59% of all new cases; 361 cases for the week ended 21 August
- The average number of contacts per case has increased from less than three in May to more than six in the week ending 14 August
- The number of people who have died from Covid-19 is below 10 for the last eight weeks
- The number of weekly confirmed Covid-19 cases is more than 600 cases in each of the last three weeks up to the week ending 21 August
- The median age of new confirmed Covid-19 cases was 30 years old for the week ending 21 August - the lowest since cases were recorded
- The week ending up to and including 21 August was the second consecutive week that Dublin had more than 150 weekly cases
- Kerry, Leitrim, Sligo and Westmeath recorded no new cases in the week ending 21 August
- This is the fourteenth week in a row that Mayo and Westmeath have recorded less than 10 new cases, fifteenth such week for Leitrim and Longford, the sixteenth such week for Kerry and the seventeenth such week for Waterford
- Women and those aged between 25-44 continue to account for the highest number of confirmed cases
- More than half (53%) of confirmed cases are now linked to an outbreak, while workplace outbreaks have increased from 3% to 12% since mid-April
- Health care workers continue to make up almost a third of all cases.
In the period 12 June to 26 August, at least seven Electoral Divisions have had more than 1,000 confirmed cases per 100,000 population, at least four of these being electoral divisions in Co. Kildare
- There has been an increase in cases among those living in Electoral Divisions where the median household income is between €40,000 and €50,000.