Covid: 28 deaths, 763 news cases with 23 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 28 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Up to 27 of these deaths occurred in February, 1 in January.

The median age of those who died was 79 years and the age range was 32-97 years.

There has been a total of 4,109 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Thursday 18 February, the HPSC was notified of 763 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 213,400.

They include 23 in Mayo, now with 320 in the past two weeks.

It gives Mayo a 14-day incidence rate of 245.2 - below the national average of 246.9.

Mayo's five-day moving average if 23.

Of the other cases notified today:

370 are men and 388 are women.

72% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 30 years old.

251 in Dublin, 84 in Galway, 57 in Kildare, 47 in Limerick, 42 in Waterford and the remaining 282 cases are spread across all other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 754 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 151 in ICU. There have been 46 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Tuesday there have been 293,752 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

187,893 people have received their first dose

105,859 people have received their second dose

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: "The past year has been very difficult for people and we still have a way to go. Incidence remains very high and we cannot drop our guard.

"But better days are in sight. People continue to respond to public health advice and act in solidarity with one another.

"We have a dedicated and committed health workforce and we are learning more about this disease all the time. We now have three very safe and effective vaccines being rolled out and supply should increase very substantially over the coming weeks.

"Please continue in your efforts as we seek to ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from vaccination."