Number of cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ireland

Datasets in this publication report the number of diagnoses with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as reported by the Department of Health in Ireland. This includes new cases diagnosed per day and cumulative cases, hospitalisations, ICU admissions, deaths, number of healthcare workers, number of clusters, gender of cases, age groups of cases, mode of transmission, age groups of those hospitalised, and cases per county. To aid standardisation of age groups and cases per county, the population estimates by age group for 2019 and the actual county population in the 2016 Census from Ireland's Central Statistics Office are also included as separate datasets, to allow expression of cases per million population. These are <em>YYYY-DD-Mon_covid_ie_cases_analysis.csv</em>, where data from Ireland's Health Protection Surveillance Centre is included up to midnight on the date YYYY-DD-Mon. <em>age_population_cso_2019.csv</em> <em>counties_population_cso_2016.csv</em> Older datasets are also included as follows. For the files <em>YYYYMMDD_covid_ie_age_groups.csv</em>, variable descriptions are as follows: age_group: Age groups, in years cases: Total cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Ireland by age group, as per the Department of Health pop_estimate: National population estimates by age group for 2019 in Ireland, as per the Central Statistics Office (Table 7 https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2019/), expressed in thousands. cases_per_million: Cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Ireland by age group, expressed per 1 million individuals For the files <em>YYYYMMDD_covid_ie_daily_cases</em>, variable descriptions are as follows: date: Date, in DD-MM-YYYY format daily_cases: New cases of COVID-19 diagnosed per day in Ireland, as per the Department of Health (https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/) cumulative_cases: Cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in Ireland percent_daily_increase: New cases of COVID-19 diagnosed per day in Ireland as a percentage of cumulative number of cases up to that date.