Ten more confirmed COVID-19 cases in Westmeath

Latest figures have shown ten new cases of COVID-19 in Westmeath and two in Roscommon.

The figures relate to midnight on Wednesday and were revealed by the Department of Health today.
The new cases bring the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Westmeath to 39 at midnight Wednesday and to seven in Roscommon.
In a more up to date assessment of the national situation, the Department of Health has also revealed that an additional three patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland have died. One person in the north-west of the country and two females in the east.
There have now been 22 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland. And at 1pm today, there were 302 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland, as at 1pm, Friday.
There are now 2,121 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. However, such is the delays in testing that some patients who self-isolated and now sought tests have recovered without being tested, or have now been told that they will now not be tested.
Data from HPSC, as of midnight, Wednesday 25th March (1,639 cases), reveals:
•54% are male and 46% are female, with 79 clusters involving 317 cases
•The median age of confirmed cases is 46 years
•419 cases (26%) have been hospitalised
•Of those hospitalised, 59 cases have been admitted to ICU
•375 cases (23%) are associated with healthcare workers
•Dublin has the highest number of cases at 922, (56% of all cases) followed by Cork with 171 cases (10%)
•Of those for whom transmission status is known; community transmission accounts for 52%, close contact accounts for 22%, travel abroad accounts for 26%