Covid: 18 deaths, 358 new cases with less than five in Mayo

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Of the deaths reported today:

7 occurred in April

3 occurred in March

3 occurred in February

3 occurred in January

One death was reported as occurring before January, and there is one death where the date of death is under investigation.

The median age of those who died was 85 years and the age range was 46-102 years.

There has been a total of 4,803 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Monday the HPSC was notified of 358 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 241,684.

They include 'less than five' in Mayo, now with a 14-day incidence rate of 100.4.

The county's five-day moving average is 11.

Of the other cases notified today:

163 are men and 192 are women.

73% are under 45 years of age.

The median age is 31 years old.

166 in Dublin, 39 in Donegal, 16 in Kildare, 13 in Offaly, 12 in Meath, 12 in Limerick and the remaining 100 cases are spread across 18 other counties

As of 8 a.m. today, 205 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 48 were in ICU.

There have been 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Sunday (April 11) there have been 1,063,666 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

749,450 people have received their first dose.

314,216 people have received their second dose.