Two deaths, 552 new Covid cases with nine in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of two additional deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total to 1,915.

As of midnight Saturday 552 new confirmed cases were recorded.

They included nine in Mayo, which has recorded 318 new cases over the past two weeks.

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 2 p.m. today, 330 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 47 are in ICU.

There have been 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.