Mayo's 14-day Covid incidence rate slips below national average with less than five new cases

There have been no new deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today.

As of midnight on Saturday, the HPSC recorded 301 new confirmed cases.

They include less than five in Mayo which had recorded 103 new cases over the past two weeks - but its 14-day incidence rate of 78.9 is below the national average of 80.7.

Of the cases notified today:

133 are men and 168 are women

64% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 32 years old

119 in Dublin, 32 in Donegal, 16 in Cork, 13 in Kildare, 13 in Kilkenny and the remaining 108 cases are spread across 18 other counties

As of 2 p.m, today, 231 Covid patients are hospitalised, of which 28 are in ICU.

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