Ireland has reached an unwanted milestone in January as over 1,000 deaths and more than 100,000 cases were confirmed in the first month of 2021.
The record comes as 522 people were hospitalised with COVID-19 at 8pm last night - a slight increase from the day before when it was 503.
Dr Tony Holohan said that the number of cases we experienced in January was more than all of 2020 combined. Yesterday, 79 further deaths and 1,414 cases were confirmed.
While numbers have dropped significantly in the space of a month, HSE boss Paul Reid warned yesterday that Ireland's hospitals would be "close to their limits" for quite some time.
Here's how Dublin's hospitals fared yesterday:
Confirmed cases in Dublin hospitals as of 8pm:
- St Vincent's: 107
- Connolly: 87
- St James's: 85
- Tallaght: 85
- Mater: 82
- Beaumont: 75
- CHI Temple Street: 1
Suspected cases:
- St James's: 40
- Beaumont: 13
- Connolly: 8
- CHI Crumlin: 7
- Tallaght: 5
- St Vincent's: 4
- Mater: 3
- CHI Tallaght: 1
Confirmed cases in ICU:
- St James's: 18
- Mater: 16
- St Vincent's: 14
- Beaumont: 11
- Tallaght: 9
- Connolly: 5
ICU beds available as of 8pm:
- St James's: 4
- Connolly: 3
- Beaumont: 3
- Mater: 2
- CHI Temple Street: 2
- Tallaght: 1
- CHI Crumlin: 1
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “We have experienced over 1,000 deaths and more than 100,000 cases in January 2021. We have reported more cases in one month than we experienced throughout 2020. This shows just how quickly this disease can spread and how much it can impact public health.
“The efforts by all of the population in following the basic public health advice has seen us reduce the incidence of the disease very rapidly compared to most countries in Europe.
“Despite the recent, significant decrease in cases, there remains a level of infection in the population which is double that seen at the peak of incidence last October. The next few weeks need to see us maintain compliance with all of the measures that are in place so that we can get to levels of the disease that are as low as possible.”
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