Covid: 413 new cases, 58 in hospital

A total of 413 additional cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre this evening.

This number of cases may change due to future data validation.

Up to 58 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 22 are in intensive care (ICU).

It emerged yesterday that Ireland has seen a small rise in the number of cases of the Delta variant first identified in India.

The number of cases sequenced up to May 20 is 126, an increase of 10 on the previous figure earlier in that month.

The Delta variants represent 1% of sequenced cases in Ireland.