THIRTY new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Donegal this evening.
Donegal’s is one of the highest figures per county with Dublin (229) and Kildare (32) seeing more today.
Nationally, a further 34 deaths relating to Covid-19 have been notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
Another 473 new cases have been reported this evening.
There have now been 4,769 Covid-19 related deaths and 240,192 infections.
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “Anyone exposed to COVID-19 over the Easter weekend will now be at their most infectious – please isolate and contact your GP to arrange a test if you have any symptoms of Covid-19.”
There have been 307 cases in Donegal over the last 14 days with the county’s 14-day incidence rate 192.8.
As of 8am today, 212 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 53 are in ICU. There have been 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Tuesday (6 April) there have been 961,887 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland: 679,844 people have received their first dose; 282,043 people have received their second dose.