The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10,753 PCR confirmed cases of covid19.
In addition, on Saturday 15 January, 4,208 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal
This portal opened on Friday 14 January.
As of 8am today, 965 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 88 are in ICU.
The Department of Health says given the current high incidence, the daily case number is based on positive SARS-CoV-2 results uploaded to the HSE COVID Care Tracker the preceding day. These data are provisional.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre and surveillance partners will continue to notify and process cases and outbreaks of COVID19 on CIDR over this period.
The Department of Health says these data are provisional and are not directly comparable with laboratory PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases registered through the HSE Covid Care Tracker.COVID-19 data hub.
