Covid: 29 deaths, 776 new cases with 20 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 29 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Up to 17 of these deaths occurred in February, and 12 occurred in January.

The median age of those who died was 77 years and the age range was 29 - 95 years.

There has been a total of 4,300 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Thursday the HPSC has been notified of 776 new confirmed cases, bringing the to total to 218,251.

Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of three confirmed cases.

The new cases today include 20 in Mayo, which has recorded 330 in the past two weeks.

It leaves the county with a 14-day incidence rate of 252.9 - above the national average of 223.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 17.

Of the cases notified today:

394 are men and 379 are women.

67% are under 45 years of age.

The median age is 34 years old.

278 in Dublin, 69 in Galway, 57 in Meath, 52 in Kildare, 48 in Donegal and the remaining 272 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 574 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, 136 in ICU. There have been 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Tuesday there have been 373,280 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

238,841 people have received their first dose.

134,439 people have received their second dose.