Latest number of Covid-19 cases confirmed

THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1,715 PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state.

In addition, on Tuesday, March 8, 7,355* people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.

 As of 8am today, 829 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 51 are in an intensive care unit.

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*These data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.

Data on the epidemiology of Covid-19 cases and deaths is available on the HPSC’s Epidemiology of Covid-19 in Ireland data hub.

Additional data on vaccination, hospital, ICU and local electoral areas is available on Ireland’s Covid-19 data hub.