Covid: 23 deaths, 921 new cases with 10 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 23 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Twenty-one of these deaths occurred in February and two occurred in January.

The median age of those who died was 84 years and the age range was 57 - 95 years.

There has been a total of 3,865 Covid related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Thursday, the HPSC has been notified of 921 confirmed cases, bringing the total to 207,720.

They include 10 in Mayo, now with 375 in the space of two weeks.

It gives the county a 14-day incidence rate of 287.3 - the 12th highest in the country and below the national average of 292.8.

Of the cases notified today:

453 are men and 466 are women.

66% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 34 years old.

414 in Dublin, 87 in Cork, 51 in Kildare, 48 in Limerick, 47 in Meath and the remaining 274 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 959 Covid patients were hospitalised, 173 in ICU.

There have been 53 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of 9 February, there have been 248,284 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

158,904 people have received their first dose.

89,380 people have received their second dose.

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said: "We have made progress in Ireland over recent weeks, but the rate of transmission of the disease is still extremely high and the risks Covid-19 poses to our vulnerable loved ones have not changed.

"Everyone is working hard to drive down Covid-19 infection in the community, and we must all continue to limit the number of daily contacts we have.

"The only way to limit the spread of Covid-19 is to limit our social contacts and follow the public health advice, wash our hands, maintain a social distance, wear a face covering where appropriate, work from home and stay at home."