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Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2021: Part 3 Travel, Agriculture, Environment and COVID-19

Health

COVID-19

The information in this chapter is from a series of information bulletins produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), that aim to provide insights into those who have either died from or contracted COVID-19, by using data from the Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) provided to the CSO by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre and data from the HSE’s Swiftcare (A2i) and COVID Care Tracker (CCT) systems. This chapter covers the period from 28 February 2020 to 08 January 2021.

A Monthly Review of the Virus

We show general demographics and electoral division (ED) statistics of confirmed COVID-19 cases from March 2020 to December 2020 in Table 31.1.

We can see the difference in the profile of people infected over this time. Women made up the majority of confirmed cases in 2020, accounting for 51% of cases in November and 52% of all cases in December.

The percentage of cases amongst 25-44-year-old was approximately a third towards the end of 2020. A different trend can be seen in the over 80s age group, which accounted for 3% of cases in December compared with 20% in April.

The percentage of cases in the Dublin region fell heading into the Winter months, making up 33% of cases in December, as other areas began to experience higher levels of COVID-19. This can be seen in October where the Border, West, Mid-East, Mid-West, South-East and South-West all experienced increased incidence levels of the virus.

Health care workers made up 7% of all confirmed cases in December and the CSO notes that the number of health care workers affected by the virus has been falling each month since April apart from a spike in November of 15%.

Looking at analysis of the Electoral Districts (ED) of confirmed cases, we can see that since the number of cases started to rise again in August there has been an increase in cases in areas where median household income was lower, there was higher working age welfare dependency and a large proportion (>25%) of the population live in rental accommodation. However, September saw an increase of confirmed cases in areas of lower working age welfare dependency and where a smaller proportion (<15%) of the population lived in rental accommodation and this trend continued until December.

Age	0-14 years	15-24 years	25-44 years	45-64 years	65-79 years	80 years and over
March	156	693	3521	3410	1018	709
April	210	874	3995	3535	1525	2534
May	113	282	1049	749	249	336
June	28	55	143	85	31	46
July	82	139	319	155	47	13
August	350	712	1198	703	152	58
September	945	2042	2943	2085	629	211
October	3421	6263	7734	5969	1679	730
November	1519	1804	3116	2284	729	518
December	4320	9428	17413	13315	3566	1348

Table 31.1: Monthly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases

Mortality, Hospitalisation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Admission Rates

The overall mortality rate is 18 per 1,000 confirmed cases, this was highest in April at 74 per 1,000 confirmed cases. The overall hospitalisation rate is 60 people per 1,000 confirmed cases, this was highest in March at 161 per 1,000 confirmed cases and is 33 in December. The overall ICU admission rate is 6 per 1,000 confirmed cases, this was also highest in March at 27 per 1,000 confirmed cases and is four people per 1,000 cases in December. (Note: It is important to note that there is a time lag between the onset of symptoms and hospital admission or death. Also note that September rates are provisional).

Table 31.2 Mortality, Hospitalisation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission rates

COVID-19 Deaths

Deaths

The results produced by the CSO in Table 31.3 and 31.4 are based on the Actual Date of Death. Using this method, the CSO has found that the 80 years and over age group had the largest number of deaths due to COVID-19 and Dublin was the county with the most deaths.

Since the start of the pandemic, the total number of people who have died due to COVID-19 in Ireland was 2,096, with a further 231 deaths cited as probable deaths linked to the virus up to and including the week ending 08 January 2021.

Table 31.3 Profile of COVID-19 Deaths and Cases up to and including Friday January 08 2020

Table 31.3: Profile of COVID-19 Deaths and Cases up to and including Friday January 08, 2021 ^{1, 5}
	Total Deaths ²	Median Age of Deaths	Total Cases ³	Median Age of Cases
All cases of COVID-19	2,327		150,926	38
Confirmed cases of COVID-19	2,096	83	150,926	38
Probable cases of COVID-19 ⁴	231		0	0

Profile of the confirmed cases follows:

Sex
Female	987	85	79,080	38
Male	1,109	81	71,764	37
Unknown	0	0	82	33

Age
0-14	0	0	12,993	8
15-24	..	..	27,775	20
25-44	20	36	51,321	34
45-64	136	58	39,786	53
65-79	606	74	11,454	71
80+	1,332	87	7,558	86
Age not stated	..	..	39	0

County
Carlow	29	82	1,599	39
Cavan	56	84	3,538	38
Clare	47	82	3,338	37
Cork	87	84	15,008	37
Donegal	73	83	6,245	38
Dublin	958	84	52,399	38
Galway	25	83	5,607	31
Kerry	23	83	3,316	35
Kildare	173	82	6,733	39
Kilkenny	35	83	2,664	38
Laois	30	77	1,952	39
Leitrim	5	72	524	37
Limerick	58	83	7,392	36
Longford	8	85	1,061	36
Louth	70	82	5,483	39
Mayo	59	82	3,765	39
Meath	68	81	6,353	38
Monaghan	60	84	3,071	39
Offaly	22	81	1,983	39
Roscommon	27	88	1,662	39
Sligo	7	85	1,654	33
Tipperary	32	88	3,153	39
Waterford	11	80	3,195	38
Westmeath	36	84	2,396	37
Wexford	37	80	4,077	38
Wicklow	60	81	2,758	42
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 13th January 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting) up to midnight Friday 8th January 2021 and is subject to revision
²Data is defined by date of death.
³Data is 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.
⁴Probable deaths are still awaiting validation so further details are not available. This involves cases that may be waiting for lab confirmation etc. Probable deaths may be reclassified as confirmed deaths or denotified at a later date.
⁵ '..' Indicates a cell number < 5 or a cell number < 5 can be identified.

Open in Excel: Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2021 Table 31.3 (XLS 13KB)

Table 31.4 Monthly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Deaths

Table 31.4: Monthly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Deaths (%) ^1,3
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Confirmed COVID-19 deaths	124	965	334	64	17	7	38	124	189	194

	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Sex
Female	29%	49%	57%	55%	47%	..	32%	41%	41%	48%
Male	71%	51%	43%	45%	53%	..	68%	59%	59%	52%
Unknown	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Age
0-14	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
15-24	0%	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	..
25-44	..	..	..	0%	..	0%	..	0%	0%	..
45-64	..	5%	6%	..	..	0%	18%	6%	6%	8%
65-79	34%	30%	22%	36%	29%	..	32%	31%	31%	29%
80+	56%	64%	71%	59%	41%	..	47%	63%	63%	60%
Age not stated	..	..	..	..	0%	..	..	0%	0%	..

County
Carlow	0%	..	..	3%	..	0%	0%	..	..	5%
Cavan	0%	3%	3%	..	..	..	..	4%	3%	..
Clare	0%	2%	5%	3%	6%	0%	0%	2%	3%	..
Cork	6%	4%	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	9%	7%	..
Donegal	..	3%	..	2%	0%	0%	3%	2%	7%	5%
Dublin	64%	49%	51%	51%	40%	..	54%	30%	22%	36%
Galway	0%	..	..	3%	6%	0%	..	..	..	..
Kerry	..	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	3%	5%	2%
Kildare	4%	10%	8%	9%	18%	..	13%	9%	8%	..
Kilkenny	0%	..	1%	3%	0%	0%	0%	..	3%	7%
Laois	..	..	0%	0%	0%	..	..	6%	..	0%
Leitrim	..	0%	0%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	..	0%
Limerick	..	..	..	0%	0%	0%	..	..	5%	8%
Longford	..	0%	..	3%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	..
Louth	..	..	4%	3%	0%	0%	0%	..	5%	9%
Mayo	..	3%	3%	3%	0%	0%	0%	..	4%	..
Meath	..	4%	2%	..	..	0%	0%	4%	4%	..
Monaghan	0%	4%	4%	2%	0%	0%	..	5%	..	..
Offaly	..	..	2%	0%	0%	0%	..	..	..	..
Roscommon	0%	..	2%	2%	0%	0%	0%	..	..	..
Sligo	0%	..	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	..	0%
Tipperary	..	..	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	..	4%	..
Waterford	0%	0%	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	..
Westmeath	..	2%	..	0%	0%	0%	..	..	4%	0%
Wexford	..	..	..	2%	..	..	0%	6%	..	4%
Wicklow	..	3%	3%	5%	..	0%	0%	..	5%	5%

Health Care Worker (HCW)
Health care worker	0%	0%	0%	0%	..	0%	0%	0%	0%	..
Not a health care worker	98%	99%	99%	99%	85%	..	80%	83%	93%	89%
Unknown	2%	1%	1%	1%	..	..	20%	17%	7%	..

Related to Outbreak
Related to COVID-19 outbreak	61%	74%	74%	75%	59%	..	72%	75%	83%	75%
Not related to COVID-19 outbreak	39%	26%	26%	25%	41%	..	28%	26%	17%	25%

Underlying Condition
Underlying medical condition other than COVID-19	98%	98%	92%	99%	95%	..	76%	81%	90%	78%
No underlying medical condition other than COVID-19	2%	1%	1%	..	..	..	9%	5%	7%	10%
Unknown	0%	1%	7%	..	..	0%	15%	14%	3%	12%

Source: CSO
¹ Table includes data as of 12th October 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting)
²Data is defined by date of death in CIDR
³ '..' Indicates a cell number < 5 or a cell number < 5 can be identified
⁴ General Population from Census 2016

Open in Excel: Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2021 Table 31.4 (XLS 13KB)

Referrals and Testing

There were 467,280 referrals for community testing where a valid reservation was recorded in the December. Some 70% of referrals were from GPs in the same month.

Testing numbers cannot be directly compared with referrals for community testing; there is a significant number of tests completed in hospitals as well as a time lag between referral and test completion. A number of referrals also do not result in a test being completed. The average positivity rate in December was 6.1%.

Month	Tests Completed	Average Positivity Rate
March	14781	4.45
April	153444	15.88/td>
May	160631	2.6
June	77229	0.9
July	217897	0.34
August	182021	1.43
September	393307	2.2
October	412118	5.85
November	314389	3.48
December	467280	6.08

Contacts, Hospitalisations, Outbreaks and Underlying Conditions

Contacts

The average number of contacts per positive case per month was four in December 2020.

Hospitalisations

A total of 7,074 positive COVID-19 cases were subsequently hospitalised in 2020, of which over 850 were admitted to ICU.

In March 2020, 259 people were admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There were 1,661 people hospitalised in December 2020, of which 220 people were admitted to ICU. (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.)

Outbreaks

There were 46,846 positive COVID-19 cases linked to an outbreak in 2020, which is defined as two or more cases in the same location and time.

Women accounted for 53% of all cases linked to an outbreak.

The median age of confirmed cases related to an outbreak was 39 in December 2020.

Also, 37% of cases which were linked to an outbreak were in Dublin. We see that 55% of cases of people under 44 years old linked to an outbreak and 42% were located in private houses and 20% were located in nursing homes in 2020.

Underlying Conditions

There have been 1,891 deaths of people with underlying conditions from 22,331 confirmed cases with underlying conditions up to and including the week ending 08 January 2021. The median age of confirmed COVID-19 deaths with underlying conditions was 84.

There were 1,752 deaths of people with underlying conditions in the over 65 age group. Of the 156 deaths in the 25-64 age group, 137 had underlying conditions.

In terms of underlying conditions, chronic heart disease was present in 44% of deaths.

Table 31.5 Average Contacts per Positive COVID-19 case by Age Group

Table 31.6 & 31.6A Monthly Profile of New COVID-19 Cases who are Subsequently Hospitalised

Table 31.6: Monthly Profile of New COVID-19 Cases who are Subsequently Hospitalised ^1,2,3,4
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Hospitalised
Total	1538	1422	302	42	30	88	330	896	765	1661

Gender
Female	639	619	154	20	16	43	147	431	369	736
Male	899	803	148	22	14	45	183	464	396	925
Not Specified	0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

Age Group
0-24	53	42	9	..	9	10	34	78	39	119
25-44	248	170	39	11	5	17	45	128	96	239
45-64	508	337	71	11	10	25	103	231	163	457
65-79	413	434	90	11	..	18	102	247	240	464
80+	310	439	93	7	..	18	46	211	227	382
Not Specified	0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

of which Admitted to ICU
Total	259	143	28	..	..	14	46	91	57	220

Gender
Female	78	46	10	..	..	..	13	26	23	74
Male	181	97	18	..	..	10	33	65	34	146
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	…	..	..

Age Group
0-24	..	.	.	..	..	.	.	..	..	..
25-44	25	23	.	..	..	.	6	..	9	12
45-64	132	71	11	..	..	6	13	25	20	91
65-79	86	42	14	..	..	..	25	52	24	94
80+	12	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	..	21
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..


Table 31.6A: Monthly Profile of Hospitalisations of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases (%) ^1,2,3
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Hospitalised	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Gender
Female	42	44	51	48	53	49	45	48	48	44
Male	58	56	49	52	47	51	55	52	52	56
Not Specified	0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

Age Group
0-24	3	3	3	..	30	11	10	9	5	7
25-44	16	12	13	26	17	19	14	14	13	14
45-64	33	24	24	26	33	28	31	26	21	28
65-79	27	31	30	26	..	20	31	28	31	28
80+	20	31	31	17	..	20	14	24	30	23
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

of which Admitted to ICU

Gender
Female	30	32	36	..	..	..	28	29	40	34
Male	70	37	7	..	..	4	13	25	13	56
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

Age Group
0-24	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
25-44	10	9	..	..	..	..	2	..	3	5
45-64	51	27	4	..	..	2	5	10	8	35
65-79	33	16	5	..	..	..	10	20	9	36
80+	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	8
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 12th October 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting)
² '..' Indicates a cell number < 5 or a cell number < 5 can be identified
³ Data is 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

Open in Excel: P-SYI2021TBL31.6 (XLS 14KB)

Table 31.7 & 31.7A Monthly Profile of Confirmed Cases linked to COVID-19 Outbreaks

Table 31.7: Monthly Profile of Confirmed Cases linked to COVID-19 Outbreaks ^1,2,3
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Total	2,560	9,653	1,597	221	484	1,984	6,744	11,741	5,800	6,062

Gender
Female	1,325	5,519	817	115	216	941	3,467	6,138	3,089	3,366
Male	1,231	4,127	780	106	298	1,043	3,275	5,599	2,700	2,692
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	..

Age
0-24	189	640	228	48	162	625	2,341	4,742	1,921	1,424
25-44	872	2,332	586	70	196	756	2,042	3,132	1,678	1,593
45-64	836	2,245	395	46	104	496	1,662	2,736	1,361	1,468
65-79	361	1,774	165	..	13	88	477	692	402	751
80+	291	2,656	223	21	..	..	222	345	434	826
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

Median Age	49	58	44	41	32	33	34	31	34	39

County
Carlow	..	70	15	..	..	53	24	149	45	57
Cavan	51	353	74	..	..	7	84	287	39	91
Clare	25	189	6	..	26	56	175	146	57	32
Cork	302	411	297	8	18	56	624	1434	246	515
Donegal	33	167	..	..	7	56	487	609	623	845
Dublin	1330	4478	545	122	161	512	2877	3659	2099	1504
Galway	34	57	46	..	..	..	270	945	324	415
Kerry	73	71	..	..	..	..	94	266	99	136
Kildare	76	682	61	20	111	565	288	635	218	99
Kilkenny	48	122	47	..	..	22	56	175	140	198
Laois	18	99	0	..	34	54	92	151	71	113
Leitrim	5	16	8	..	0	0	24	60	17	15
Limerick	66	173	39	..	17	128	245	350	205	227
Longford	13	155	0	..	0	10	67	60	53	27
Louth	33	389	43	..	0	24	198	122	216	278
Mayo	38	241	14	..	0	0	39	320	202	407
Meath	67	284	33	..	5	50	161	418	137	79
Monaghan	22	303	56	..	..	16	121	79	67	79
Offaly	34	182	85	..	10	100	99	112	92	45
Roscommon	0	131	73	..	..	5	102	181	123	120
Sligo	13	35	0	7	9	..	42	239	75	178
Tipperary	58	248	11	..	..	147	64	172	166	49
Waterford	8	12	0	..	..	14	130	263	131	91
Westmeath	62	308	56	..	5	0	76	268	89	51
Wexford	..	144	9	..	9	22	112	416	43	302
Wicklow	53	280	5	..	5	13	148	214	214	69

Outbreak Location
Childcare Facility	..	..	..	..	..	9	69	215	92	160
Community Hospital / Long-stay unit	37	445	18	..	..	..	5	0	25	101
Community Outbreak	30	62	5	..	0	87	290	719	224	55
Extended Family	71	60	18	..	11	68	399	683	197	478
Guest B & B	0	..	0	0	..	0	..	0	0	0
Hospital	322	690	99	5	0	5	105	258	850	634
Hotel	0	0	..	0	0	0	53	41	0	21
Nursing Home	655	5132	496	100	32	45	298	670	482	1235
Other	14	16	..	..	..	48	157	125	116	468
Other healthcare service	..	..	..	0	0	0	13	29	41	82
Other recreation activity	0	0	..	0	..	..	..	0	..	0
Personal grooming service	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	6
Private House	1032	1658	300	57	135	998	4154	7135	2833	1308
Public House	26	..	0	..	0	0	51	48	0	43
Religious/Other ceremony	0	0	..	0	..	..	23	101	63	187
Residential Institution	160	896	143	0	56	94	99	270	130	264
Retail Outlet	0	6	0	0	0	0	22	26	15	23
Restaurant / Café	0	0	0	..	15	36	178	30	8	81
School	..	..	0	0	0	0	155	524	197	419
Social gathering	0	0	0	0	0	0	156	250	87	49
Sporting activity/fitness	0	..	..	..	..	..	57	83	9	0
Staff canteen	0	..	0	0	..	0	0	0	0	0
Transport	..	..	..	..	..	0	0	11	0	0
Travel Related	116	..	..	16	83	36	43	0	12	8
University/College	..	..	0	0	0	0	18	71	38	5
Workplace	80	673	505	19	124	530	374	405	342	406

Health Care Worker (HCW)
Yes	729	2,677	394	65	53	140	466	711	1,827	1,219
No	1,500	5,477	1,036	144	389	1,760	5,910	9,058	3,552	4,314
Not Specified	301	1,499	167	..	..	84	368	1,972	421	529

Median Household Income ⁵
< 30k	63	350	43	..	..	60	191	321	157	164
30k - 40k	624	2,361	590	66	122	569	1,775	3,475	1,776	1,859
40k - 50k	689	2,264	391	35	151	502	1,600	3,339	1,727	1,804
50k - 60k	606	2,056	217	43	105	400	1,377	2,091	969	1,014
60k - 70k	359	1,630	152	44	62	310	1,149	1,614	735	769
70k - 80k	76	328	..	..	..	44	265	383	191	201
80k - 90k	..	277	49	..	..	21	152	179	83	72
90k +	..	191	..	..	..	13	47	53	28	25
Unknown	70	197	125	17	17	44	188	285	134	139

Urban / Rural ⁶
Cities	986	3,456	479	69	159	784	3,179	5,346	2,581	2,694
Satellite urban towns	556	1,870	220	39	115	366	1,305	2,833	1,478	1,546
Independent urban towns	488	1,979	497	40	93	365	1,000	1,664	770	801
Rural areas with high urban influence	222	1,021	101	21	44	199	543	952	484	513
Rural areas with moderate urban influence	140	747	100	7	36	166	356	391	203	215
Highly rural / remote areas	80	383	19	..	6	55	157	271	149	154
Unknown	70	197	125	17	17	44	188	285	134	139
Source: CSO
Table 31.7A: Weekly Profile of Cumulative Confirmed Cases linked to COVID-19 Outbreaks (%) ^1,2,3
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Gender
Female	52	57	51	52	45	47	51	52	53	56
Male	48	43	49	48	62	53	49	48	47	44
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

Age
0-24	7	7	14	22	33	32	35	40	33	23
25-44	34	24	37	32	40	38	30	27	29	26
45-64	33	23	25	21	21	25	25	23	23	24
65-79	14	18	10	..	3	4	7	6	7	12
80+	11	28	14	10	..	..	3	3	7	14
Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

County
Carlow	..	..	..	..	..	3	0	1	1	1
Cavan	..	4	5	..	..	0	1	2	1	2
Clare	..	2	0	..	5	3	3	1	1	1
Cork	12	4	19	4	4	3	9	12	4	8
Donegal	..	2	..	..	1	3	7	5	11	14
Dublin	52	46	34	55	33	26	43	31	36	25
Galway	..	..	3	..	..	..	4	8	6	7
Kerry	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	2	2
Kildare	3	7	4	9	23	28	4	5	4	2
Kilkenny	..	..	3	..	..	1	1	1	2	3
Laois	..	..	0	..	7	3	1	1	1	2
Leitrim	..	0	..	..	0	0	0	1	0	0
Limerick	3	2	2	..	4	6	4	3	4	4
Longford	..	2	0	..	0	1	1	1	1	0
Louth	..	4	3	..	0	1	3	1	4	5
Mayo	..	2	..	..	0	0	1	3	3	7
Meath	3	3	2	..	1	3	2	4	2	1
Monaghan	..	3	4	..	..	1	2	1	1	1
Offaly	..	2	5	..	2	5	1	1	2	1
Roscommon	..	..	5	..	..	0	2	2	2	2
Sligo	..	0	0	3	2	..	1	2	1	3
Tipperary	2	3	..	..	..	7	1	1	3	1
Waterford	..	0	0	..	..	1	2	2	2	2
Westmeath	2	3	4	..	1	0	1	2	2	1
Wexford	..	..	..	..	2	1	2	4	1	5
Wicklow	2	3	0	..	1	1	2	2	4	1

Outbreak Location
Childcare Facility	..	..	..	..	..	0	1	2	2	3
Community Hospital / Long-stay unit	..	5	..	..	..	..	0	0	0	2
Community Outbreak	..	..	0	..	0	4	4	6	4	1
Extended Family	3	..	..	..	2	3	6	6	3	8
Guest B & B	0	..	0	0	..	0	..	0	0	0
Hospital	13	7	6	2	0	0	2	2	15	10
Hotel	0	0	..	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Nursing Home	26	53	31	45	7	2	4	6	8	20
Other	..	0	..	..	..	2	2	1	2	8
Other healthcare service	..	..	..	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Other recreation activity	0	..	..	0	..	..	..	0	..	0
Personal grooming service	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Private House	40	17	19	26	28	50	62	61	49	22
Public House	..	..	0	..	..	0	1	0	0	1
Religious/Other ceremony	0	0	..	0	..	..	0	1	1	3
Residential Institution	6	9	9	0	12	5	1	2	2	4
Retail Outlet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restaurant / Café	0	0	0	..	3	2	3	0	0	1
School	..	..	0	0	0	0	2	4	3	7
Social gathering	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	1
Sporting activity/fitness	0	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0	0
Staff canteen	0	..	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transport	..	..	..	0	..	0	0	0	0	0
Travel Related	5	0	0	7	17	2	1	0	0	0
University/College	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Workplace	3	7	32	9	26	27	6	3	6	7

Health Care Worker (HCW)
Yes	28	28	25	29	11	7	7	6	32	20
No	59	57	65	65	80	89	88	77	61	71
Not Specified	12	16	10	..	..	4	5	17	7	9

Median Household Income ⁴
< 30k	..	14	2	..	..	2	7	13	6	6
30k - 40k	24	92	23	3	5	22	69	136	69	73
40k - 50k	27	88	15	1	6	20	63	130	67	70
50k - 60k	24	80	8	2	4	16	54	82	38	40
60k - 70k	14	64	6	2	2	12	45	63	29	30
70k - 80k	3	13	..	..	..	2	10	15	7	8
80k - 90k	..	11	2	..	..	1	6	7	3	3
90k +	..	7	..	..	..	1	2	2	1	1
Unknown	..	8	5	1	1	2	7	11	5	5

Urban / Rural ⁵
Cities	39	135	19	3	6	31	124	209	101	105
Satellite urban towns	22	73	9	2	4	14	51	111	58	60
Independent urban towns	19	77	19	2	4	14	39	65	30	31
Rural areas with high urban influence	9	40	4	1	2	8	21	37	19	20
Rural areas with moderate urban influence	5	29	4	0	1	6	14	15	8	8
Highly rural / remote areas	3	15	1	..	0	2	6	11	6	6
Unknown	3	8	5	1	1	2	7	11	5	5
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 10th February 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting)
²Data is defined by epidemiological date case which is the earliest of onset date, date of diagnosis, laboratory specimen collection date, laboratory received date, laboratory reported date, event creation/notification date
³ '..' Indicates a cell number < 5 or a cell number < 5 can be identified
⁴ Median Household Income per Electoral Division from Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2016, https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-gpii/geographicalprofilesofincomeinireland2016/
⁵ Urban Rural definitions from Urban and Rural Life in Ireland 2019, https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-urli/urbanandrurallifeinireland2019/

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Table 31.8 Profile of COVID-19 Patients with Underlying Conditions up to and including Friday January 08 2021

Table 31.9 Monthly Referrals for Community COVID-19 Tests, Tests Completed and Average Positivity Rate

Table 31.9: Monthly Referrals for Community COVID-19 Tests, Tests Completed and Average Positivity Rate ^1,2
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Monthly Referrals for Community COVID-19 test by Age category
0 - 14 years	4,438	2,395	2,727	1,602	3,866	14,523	75,489	58,244	32,639	61,073
15 - 24 years	3,941	6,244	5,317	4,763	19,650	22,656	54,108	64,375	33,954	67,209
25 - 44 years	17,592	29,290	25,649	16,036	72,496	70,008	133,446	122,493	91,681	166,924
45-64 years	12,720	29,984	23,484	14,695	67,922	54,328	90,528	94,147	71,279	123,618
65-79 years	3,027	7,761	5,849	3,368	8,480	8,486	14,695	16,112	10,659	24,269
80 years and over	421	8,569	3,623	1,582	2,777	2,092	5,016	6,734	5,231	12,967
Total	42,139	84,243	66,649	42,046	175,191	172,093	373,282	362,105	245,443	456,060

Monthly Referrals for Community COVID-19 test by Source
GPs	42,139	60,856	40,582	21,787	41,116	81,135	225,413	231,642	121,443	286,023
Other Source ³	0	23,387	26,067	20,259	134,075	90,958	147,869	130,463	124,000	170,037
All sources	42,139	84,243	66,649	42,046	175,191	172,093	373,282	362,105	245,443	456,060

Monthly Referrals for Community COVID-19 test by Speciality Type
Contact testing/ At risk groups	88	24,463	14,105	4,060	6,966	19,924	54,022	101,583	48,831	109,185
General COVID-19 testing	38,143	209	13,572	13,413	28,673	62,400	221,559	139,348	82,529	171,472
Healthcare/ Essential worker testing	3,906	29,787	25,986	20,942	132,775	83,107	78,966	89,218	92,725	133,081
Residential settings/ Institutions/ Schools	..	29,784	12,986	3,631	6,777	6,662	18,734	31,956	21,358	36,133
Travel from the UK/ Brazil/ South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	..	0	0	6,189
Total	42,139	84,243	66,649	42,046	175,191	172,093	373,282	362,105	245,443	456,060

Monthly Tests Completed and Positivity Rate
Monthly Tests Completed	14,781	153,444	160,631	77,229	217,897	182,021	393,307	412,118	314,389	467,280
Monthly Average Positivity Rate	4.45	15.88	2.60	0.90	0.34	1.43	2.20	5.85	3.48	6.08
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 27th January 2021 for Referrals for Community COVID-19 test from SwiftQueue system
² Table includes referrals where valid reservation for test is made
³ Other Source includes ; Contact Tracing Team Public Health GP Public Health Nurse Residential Setting

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Table 31.5: Average contacts per positive COVID-19 case by age group ¹
	2020
	May	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
0-14 years	2.10	3.13	1.97	1.73	1.95	4.02	3.79	2.71	2.55	2.66
15-24 years	3.12	3.94	3.66	5.33	6.57	7.18	4.17	3.98	3.97	4.46
25-44 years	2.78	4.59	2.81	4.16	6.13	5.35	4.50	3.57	3.54	3.98
45-64 years	2.57	3.56	2.57	5.61	4.78	5.04	4.33	3.24	3.28	3.61
65-79 years	2.14	3.10	2.03	3.44	3.73	4.22	3.44	2.92	2.35	2.90
80 years and over	2.40	2.90	1.95	2.22	2.10	2.36	2.11	2.21	2.39	2.45
All ages	2.52	3.54	2.50	3.75	4.21	4.70	3.72	3.41	3.32	3.81
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 14th October 2021 for contacts of positive COVID-19 cases from CCT (COVID Care Tracker)

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Table 31.1 Monthly Profile of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases (%)
	2020
	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Total Cases	9,507	12,802	2,791	401	762	3,190	8,922	25,198	10,053	49,638

	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Gender
Female	48	61	54	54	50	48	51	52	51	52
Male	52	39	46	46	50	52	49	48	49	48
Not Specified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Age
0-14	2	2	4	7	11	11	11	11	15	9
15-24	7	7	10	14	18	22	24	24	18	19
25-44	37	32	38	37	42	38	34	31	31	35
45-64	36	28	27	22	21	22	22	24	24	27
65-79	11	11	9	8	6	5	7	7	7	7
80+	7	20	12	12	2	2	2	3	5	3
Not Specified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

NUT3
Border	6	10	9	9	4	4	11	13	12	11
Midland	6	7	9	0	9	8	5	5	6	3
West	5	5	9	0	1	1	6	10	7	7
Dublin	51	47	41	70	47	34	44	25	30	33
Mid-East	12	17	10	14	24	29	12	16	15	13
Mid-West	6	6	5	0	7	14	7	8	12	10
South-East	2	4	4	4	2	7	5	7	8	10
South-West	12	4	13	3	6	3	10	16	10	13

Health Care Worker (HCW)
Yes	30	36	30	26	18	9	7	5	15	7
No	56	47	62	69	77	86	88	76	79	83
Not Specified	14	17	8	5	5	5	5	19	6	10

Median Household Income
< 30k	3	4	4	3	4	8	8	7	8	6
30k - 40k	19	22	29	24	22	20	25	25	26	24
40k - 50k	26	26	26	26	29	34	28	27	29	29
50k - 60k	22	20	15	18	21	19	20	20	20	22
60k - 70k	17	15	12	19	16	12	13	13	11	13
70k - 80k	5	3	2	3	4	4	4	3	3	3
80k - 90k	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	2
90k +	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Unknown	4	6	9	3	2	2	1	4	2	1

Majority of HH income in ED: welfare
20% +	18	19	22	21	22	29	26	23	26	21
13%-19.99%	22	25	27	28	29	30	25	26	27	27
9%-12.99%	22	22	18	18	20	18	22	20	19	24
<9%	34	28	24	30	27	21	26	27	26	27
Unknown	4	6	9	3	2	2	1	4	2	1

Proportion of People Renting in an ED
>40%	19	17	25	30	29	25	24	23	25	21
25%-40%	35	36	31	29	38	41	32	29	31	32
15%-24%	21	19	16	20	14	17	21	19	18	21
<15%	21	22	19	18	17	15	22	25	24	25
Unknown	4	6	9	3	2	2	1	4	2	1
Source: CSO

Table 31.2: COVID-19 Mortality, Hospitalisation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission rates (per 1,000 confirmed cases) by Month ^1,2
	All cases
	2020
	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	All months

Mortality Rate	47	74	42	35	..	5	6	8	18	9	18
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Rate	27	11	10	..	..	4	5	4	6	4	6
Hospitalisation Rate	161	111	108	105	39	28	37	36	76	33	60

Hospitalisation Rate by age
0-24 years	63	38	23	..	40	9	11	8	12	9	13
25-44 years	69	42	37	74	16	14	15	17	31	14	36
45-64 years	148	94	94	125	64	35	49	39	71	34	64
65-79 years	407	282	360	343	..	118	162	157	327	129	194
80 years and over	439	172	275	147	..	309	218	288	435	281	236
Source: CSO
¹ Table includes data as of 5th October 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting)
²Cases 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

Table 31.8: Profile of COVID-19 Patients with Underlying Conditions up to and including Friday January 08 2021 ^{1, 4}
	Total Confirmed Deaths ²	Median Age of Deaths	Total Confirmed Cases ³	Median Age of Cases
Total	1,891	84	22,331	53

Profile of the confirmed cases with underlying conditions follows:

Sex
Female	891	85	12,087	52
Male	1,000	81	10,240	55
Unknown	0	0	..	0

Age
0-24	..	..	2,582	21
25-44	15	38	5,321	35
45-64	122	58	7,099	54
65-79	557	75	3,795	73
80+	1,195	87	3,530	86
Age not stated	..	..	..	..

Underlying Conditions
1 underlying condition	987	83	13,901	54
2 underlying conditions	563	83	5,421	73
3 or More underlying conditions	341	84	3,009	78

Count of Underlying Conditions
Chronic heart disease	824	84	4,251	72
Hypertension	413	84	4,733	63
Chronic kidney disease	236	82	1,028	73
Chronic liver disease	40	74	327	64
Chronic neurological disease	664	85	2,114	80
Chronic respiratory disease	371	80	5,624	47
Cancer/malignancy	325	78	1,483	70
Diabetes	323	81	2,583	64
BMI >= 40	39	63	353	52
Other co-morbidity	1,152	83	9,345	56
Source: CSO
¹Table includes data as of 13th January 2021 for events created on CIDR (Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting) up to midnight Friday 8th January 2021 and is subject to revision
²Data is defined by date of death
³Data is defined by epidemiological date case which is the earliest of onset date, date of diagnosis, laboratory specimen collection date, laboratory received date, laboratory reported date, event creation/notification date
⁴ '..' Indicates a cell number < 5 or a cell number < 5 can be identified