Covid: 101 deaths, 879 new cases with 12 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 101 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Up to 83 of these deaths occurred in January with 18 occurring in February.

The median age of those who died is 85 years and the age range is 19-103 years.

There has been a total of 3,418 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Monday the HPSC registered 879 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 198,424.

They include 12 in Mayo, now with 671 in the past two week.

It gives the county a 14-day average of 514.1 - the seventh highest in the country and above the national average of 455.

Of the other cases notified today:

419 are men and 459 are women

56% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 41 years old

383 in Dublin, 79 in Cork, 53 in Galway, 40 in Limerick, 43 in Meath and the remaining 290 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 2 pm today, 1,388 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 207 in ICU.

There have been 45 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, said: "This is the highest number of deaths we have reported on any single day of the Covid-19 pandemic so far.

"The high mortality we are experiencing as a country at the moment is related to the surge of infection we saw several weeks ago, and the hospitalisations and admissions to ICU that followed as a direct result.

"Although we have seen great improvement in the level of infection being reported, we have a long way to go and incidence needs to decline much further.

"The best way to honour those who have died from Covid-19, and those who loved them or provided care for them, is to follow the public health advice.

"Stay at home unless absolutely necessary, and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do the same.

"What we can have control over today is the outlook of this disease in the weeks to come. Your positive actions matter, and they add up at a collective level. Please keep it up."