Covid: New case numbers remaining high

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

There has been a total of 4,667 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Sunday the HPSC was notified of 539 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 235,078.

They include nine in Mayo, now with a 14-day incidence rate of 65.1 - well below the national average of 163.7.

Mayo's five-day moving average is nine.

Of the cases notified today:

288 are men and 249 are women.

73% are under 45 years of age.

The median age is 32 years old.

262 in Dublin, 32 in Kildare, 30 in Westmeath, 26 in Galway, 21 in Meath, 21 in Offaly and the remaining 147 cases are spread across 20 other counties

As of 8 a.m. today, 331 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 70 in ICU. There have been 19 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Friday (March 26), there have been 786,569 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland as follows.

567,023 people have received their first dose

219,546 people have received their second dose