Covid: 34 deaths, 473 new cases with 21 in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 34 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Of the deaths reported today:

3 occurred in April

4 occurred in March

19 occurred in February

5 occurred in January

3 occurred in December or earlier.

The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 33 - 96 years.

There has been a total of 4,769 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Thursday the HPSC has been notified of 473 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 240,192.

They include 21 in Mayo, now with 125 over the past two weeks.

It gives the county a 14-day incidence rate of 95.8 - below the national average of 144.9.

Mayo's five-day moving average has risen to eight.

Of the other cases notified today:

224 are men and 247 are women.

76% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 29 years old.

229 in Dublin, 32 in Kildare, 30 in Donegal, 21 in Mayo, 19 in Meath and the remaining 142 cases are spread across 19 other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 212 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, of which 53 were in ICU.

There have been 17 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Tuesday (April 6) there have been 961,887 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

679,844 people have received their first dose.

282,043 people have received their second dose.

Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: "Anyone exposed to Covid-19 over the Easter weekend will now be at their most infectious - please isolate and contact your GP to arrange a test if you have any symptoms."