Covid: One death, 434 new cases with 'less than five' in Mayo

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

There has been a total of 4,867 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight on Thursday the HPSC was notified of 434 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 245,743.

They include 'less that five' in Mayo, now with a 14-day incidence rate of 98.5 - below the national average of 117.4.

The county's five-day moving average is 10.

Of the other cases notified today:

228 are men and 204 are women.

74% are under 45 years of age.

the median age is 31 years old

217 in Dublin, 30 in Kildare, 30 in Cork, 27 in Limerick, 21 in Donegal and the remaining 109 cases are spread across 20 other counties.

As of 8 a.m. today, 166 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, of which 48 were in ICU.

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

Latest update on vaccines

As of last Wednesday there have been 1,275,828 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:

904,774 people have received their first dose.

371,054 people have received their second dose.