The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 2 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 1,915 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
There has been a further 552 confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationally, with 30 of these cases in Donegal.
There has now been a total of 62,002 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Nationally there has been 12,069 new cases of Covid-19 reported over the last 14 days, with 511 of these cases being recorded in Donegal.
Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 6 confirmed cases. The figure of 62,002 confirmed cases reflects this.
Of the cases notified today:
– 275 are men and 275 are women
– 63% are under 45 years of age
– the median age is 36 years old
– 173 in Dublin, 86 in Cork, 40 in Limerick, 30 in Donegal and the remaining 223 cases are across all other counties
As of 2pm today, 330 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 47 are in ICU. There have been 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.