Covid: 68 deaths, 556 new cases with 14 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 68 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Up to 50 of these deaths occurred in February, 15 occurred in January and two in December. There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 85 years and the age range was 43-96 years.

As of midnight on Monday, the HPSC was notified of 556 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 204,940.

They include 14 in Mayo, now with 458 over the past two weeks.

It leaves the county with a 14-day incidence rate of 350.0 - the seventh highest in the country and above the national average of 319.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 25.

Of the other cases notified today:

284 are men and 268 are women

60% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 39 years old

163 in Dublin, 45 in Limerick, 38 in Galway, 34 in Cork, 29 in Waterford and the remaining 247 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 8 a.m. today, 1,104 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 182 in ICU. There have been 54 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of February 6, a total of 236,996 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

152,652 people have received their first dose

84,344 people have received their second dose