Covid: 13 deaths, 738 new cases with 19 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 13 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Ten of these deaths occurred in February, one occurred in January, one occurred in October and one date of death remains under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 55 - 92 years.

There has been a total of 4,313 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Friday the HPSC has been notified of 738 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 218,980.

They include 19 in Mayo, which has recorded 305 in the past two weeks.

The county has a 14-day incidence rate of 233.7 - above the national average of 215.8.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 19.

Of the cases notified today:

356 are men and 378 are women.

71% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 32 years old.

311 in Dublin, 54 in Limerick, 36 in Cork, 34 in Offaly, 33 in Donegal and the remaining 270 cases are spread across 20 other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 550 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 135 in ICU. There have been 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Wednesday there have been 391,355 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

254,948 people have received their first dose

136,407 people have received their second dose