Number of Mayo Covid-19 deaths remains at 42, according to latest CSO report

Mayo has not recorded a death from Covid-19 since April, according to the latest report on the pandemic by the Central Statistics Office.

The statistics, dated up to August 21, confirmed that the county's death toll from the virus remains at 42.

Nationally, the number of people who have died from Covid-19 is below 10 for the last eight weeks.

The report stated that Mayo had recorded less that ten new confirmed cases for the 14th week in a row.

Other findings from the study were as follows:

Dublin and Kildare made up 59% of all new cases; 361 cases for the week ending August 21.

The average number of contacts per case has increased from less than three in May to more than six in the week ending August 14.

The number of people who have died from Covid-19 is below 10 for the last eight weeks.

The number of weekly confirmed cases is more than 600 cases in each of the last three weeks up to the week ending August 21.

The median age of new confirmed cases was 30 years old for the week ending August 21 - the lowest since cases were recorded.

The week ending up to and including August 21 was the second consecutive week that Dublin had more than 150 weekly cases.

Kerry, Leitrim, Sligo and Westmeath recorded no new cases in the week ending August 21.

This is the fourteenth week in a row that Mayo and Westmeath have recorded less than 10 new cases, fifteenth such week for Leitrim and Longford, the sixteenth such week for Kerry and the seventeenth such week for Waterford.

Women and those aged between 25-44 continue to account for the highest number of confirmed cases.

More than half (53%) of confirmed cases are now linked to an outbreak, while workplace outbreaks have increased from 3% to 12% since mid-April.

Health care workers continue to make up almost a third of all cases.

In the period June 12 to August 26, at least seven electoral divisions have had more than 1,000 confirmed cases per 100,000 population, at least four of these being electoral divisions in Co. Kildare.

There has been an increase in cases among those living in electoral divisions where the median household income is between €40,000 and €50,000.