Covid: 35 deaths, 1,047 new cases with 39 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 35 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Up to 29 of these deaths occurred in February and six occurred in January.

The median age of those who died is 84 years and the age range is 63-96 years.

As of midnight on Thursday, the HPSC registered 1,047 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 201,763.

They include 39 in Mayo, which has recorded 542 new cases in the past two weeks.

It leaves the county with a 14-day incidence rate of 415.3 - the eighth highest in the country and above the national average of 369.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 369.

Of the other cases notified today:

505 are men and 540 are women

58% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 38 years old

292 are in Dublin, 119 in Cork, 76 in Wexford, 60 in Limerick, 47 in Kildare and the remaining 453 cases are spread across all other counties

As of 2 p.m. today, 1,221 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 181 in ICU. There have been 51 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, said: "No single intervention is perfect at preventing the spread of Covid-19, it takes many different individual actions to slow down the spread of the disease.

"Every action you take is another layer of protection between you and the virus - the more layers you have the more protection you have."