Covid: Three deaths and 525 new cases with 12 in Mayo

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

One death occurred in March and one in January. There is one death where the date of death is under investigation.

There has been a total of 4,422 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Saturday the HPSC was notified of 525 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 223,219.

They include 12 in Mayo, which has registered 208 in the past two weeks.

It gives the county a 14-day incidence rate of 159.4 - below the national average of 172.3.

Mayo's five-day moving average is 11.

Of the cases notified today:

271 are men and 254 are women.

74% are under 45 years of age.

The median age is 31 years old.

214 in Dublin, 37 in Meath, 28 in Offaly, 28 in Limerick and 25 in Wicklow and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 19 other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 423 Covid patients were hospitalised, 103 in ICU. There have been 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Numbers of people vaccinated

As of last Thursday, there have been 493,873 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

346,256 people have received their first dose.

147,617 people have received their second dose.