Covid: 33 deaths, 744 new cases with 22 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 33 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

A total of 31 of these deaths occurred in February and two in January.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 42-105 years.

As of midnight on Monday the HPSC was notified of 744 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 211,113,

They include 22 in Mayo, now with 347 in the past two weeks.

It gives the county a 14-day incidence rate of 265.9 - the ninth highest in the country and below the national average of 269.3.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 23.

Of the cases notified today:

373 are male and 366 are female.

68% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 31 years old.

301 in Dublin, 77 in Galway, 37 in Waterford, 36 in Offaly, 32 in Kildare and the remaining 261 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 861 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 159 in ICU. There have been 51 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of Saturday, February 13, there have been 268,551 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

176,926 people have received their first dose.

91,625 people have received their second dose.