Covid: Mayo records 125 new cases in past two weeks

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 11 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

Of the deaths notified today:

Four occurred in April.

Two occurred in March.

Four occurred in February.

One occurred in January.

The median age of those who died was 83 years and the age range was 50-93 years.

There has been a total of 4,847 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Monday the HPSC was notified of 390 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 244,297.

They include 10 in Mayo, now with 125 over the past two weeks.

It leaves the county with a 14-day incidence rate of 95.8 - below the national average of 113.9.

Mayo's five-day moving average of eight.

Of the cases notified today:

215 are men and 174 are women

67% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 34 years old

172 in Dublin, 42 in Kildare, 21 in Meath, 20 in Tipperary, 18 in Donegal and the remaining 117 cases are spread across 19 other counties

As of 8 a.m. today, 179 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, 48 in ICU.

There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Sunday (April 18) there have been 1,208,459 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

855,512 people have received their first dose.

352,947 people have received their second dose.