National Serosurveillance Programme (NSP)

The National Serosurveillance Programme is the principal source of data on the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Purpose: The initial objective of the National Serosurveillance Programme is to report on the seroprevalence of COVID-19 due to vaccination or infection in Ireland over time, by age and quantitative antibody levels. The programme, in time, will provide information on the prevalence of antibodies of other infectious diseases of public health importance.

Coverage: National- currently 8 acute laboratories of geographic spread, submit residual sera specimens to the NSP. A schedule of collection cycles at 6-week intervals has been agreed until end 2022.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) contribute data from 500 blood donor specimens every two weeks

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Contact points	Contact point 1 URI Name Health Protection Surveillance Centre Email data@health-protection-su.ie Identifier
Publisher	Publisher 1 URI Name Health Protection Surveillance Centre Email URL Type http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority Identifier
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Release date	January 1, 2021
Modification date	August 14, 2025
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Identifier	NDC-0103
Frequency	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/MONTHLY
Provenance	Anonymised demographic data on residual sera specimens is collected at source in the acute laboratories. Laboratory partners update specimen details on the Laboratory Data Form before sending to the Seroepidemiology Unit (SEU). Specimens are sent to the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) for testing. Once testing is complete, specimen results data is sent to HPSC SEU. Specimen result data is then matched with the anonymised demographic data forms from our laboratory partners, using the SEU ID as the primary identifier. IBTS collect data on blood donor specimens. Specimens are tested on site in IBTS and in St James’s Hospital
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Temporal coverage	Temporal coverage 1 Start January 1, 2021 End December 10, 2024
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Spatial coverage	Spatial coverage 1 URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL Label Ireland Geometry Bounding Box Centroid
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Access rights	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
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Theme	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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Health category	http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/ehr
Health theme	http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease http://health.europa.eu/theme/epidemiology
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Minimum typical age	15
Maximum typical age	85
Number of records	1037803
Number of records for unique individuals.	148187
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