Key Findings for the week ending 29 October 2021:
Week Ending | Number in hospital at week end | Total confirmed COVID-19 cases |
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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 | 10190 |
13/08 | 221 | 12865 |
20/08 | 251 | 13771 |
27/08 | 326 | 12062 |
03/09 | 353 | 10080 |
10/09 | 328 | 9533 |
17/09 | 288 | 9114 |
24/09 | 297 | 8725 |
01/10 | 308 | 8529 |
08/10 | 354 | 9780/td> |
15/10 | 413 | 12262 |
22/10 | 457 | 15100 |
29/10 | 481 | 14707 |
Table A: Weekly Profile of COVID-19 1,2,3,4 | |||||||||||||
06/08 | 13/08 | 20/08 | 27/08 | 03/09 | 10/09 | 17/09 | 24/09 | 01/10 | 08/10 | 15/10 | 22/10 | 29/10* | |
Total Cases | 10,190 | 12,865 | 13,771 | 12,062 | 10,080 | 9,533 | 9,114 | 8,725 | 8,529 | 9,780 | 12,262 | 15,100 | 14,707 |
% 65 and over | 4% | 5% | 6% | 8% | 9% | 6% | 7% | 9% | 11% | 13% | 13% | 12% | 10% |
Number in hospital at week end | 189 | 221 | 251 | 326 | 353 | 328 | 288 | 297 | 308 | 354 | 413 | 457 | 481 |
Number in ICU at week end | 30 | 43 | 52 | 59 | 55 | 59 | 73 | 61 | 59 | 73 | 73 | 90 | 97 |
Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths | 9 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 36 | 42 | 36 | 34 | 42 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 33 |
* latest week is preliminary | |||||||||||||
1 Table includes data as of 2nd November 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting) up to midnight Friday 29th 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 29 October 2021. It is the thirty-fifth 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 33 deaths among confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 29 October 2021 and of those, 28 deaths (85%) were in people aged 65 and over. Most deaths in this pandemic have been in older age groups. Dublin was the only county to record more than five deaths in the week ending 29 October 2021.
Confirmed Cases
The number of weekly cases was 14,707 in the week ending 29 October 2021. More than a third (34%) of cases were among people aged 25-44 while one in ten (10%) cases was in those aged 65 and over. Those aged 14 or younger accounted for 21% of cases, a decrease of 2% from the previous week.
Dublin (3,928) and Cork (1,774) had the highest number of new cases for the week ending 29 October 2021.
0-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65-79 years | 80 years and over | |
27/08 | 23 | 23 | 29 | 18 | 5 | 2 |
03/09 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 17 | 6 | 3 |
10/09 | 34 | 16 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 2 |
17/09 | 34 | 15 | 27 | 17 | 5 | 2 |
24/09 | 28 | 14 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 3 |
01/10 | 23 | 15 | 30 | 21 | 9 | 2 |
08/10 | 22 | 13 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 3 |
15/10 | 22 | 11 | 30 | 24 | 10 | 3 |
22/10 | 23 | 11 | 30 | 24 | 10 | 3 |
29/10 | 21 | 12 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 2 |
Hospitalisations
There were 270 hospitalisations of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending 22 October 2021 and 190 in the week ending 29 October 2021. Of these, 32 were admitted to ICU in the week ending 22 October 2021 and 31 in the week ending 29 October 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 29 October 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 16 October 2021 were employed in the Human Health & Social Work Activities sector and 15% in the Wholesale & Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles & Motorcycles sector.
The largest weekly increase of 37% was in the Professional, Scientific & Technical Activities sector followed by a 25% increase in the Education sector.
23/10/2021 | 30/10/2021 | |
Agriculture, forestry & fishing (A) | 77 | 68 |
Industry (B-E) | 759 | 895 |
Construction (F) | 428 | 499 |
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G) | 891 | 1066 |
Transportation and storage (H) | 227 | 220 |
Accommodation and food service activities (I) | 473 | 491 |
Information and communication(J) | 209 | 235 |
Financial, insurance and real estate activities(K-L) | 338 | 353 |
Professional, scientific and technical activities (M) | 332 | 455 |
Administrative and support service activities (N) | 386 | 366 |
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (O) | 436 | 469 |
Education(P) | 428 | 535 |
Human health and social work activities (Q) | 1017 | 1070 |
Other NACE activities (R-U) | 244 | 288 |
Unknown | 165 | 192 |
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, is 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 September 2021 for cases reported in 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.
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 35 - Table 2-2A (XLS 45KB)
Table 3: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 35 - Table 3-3A (XLS 54KB)
Table 6: COVID-19 Deaths and Cases Series 35 - Table 6-6A (XLS 35KB)