Further rise in hospitalised Covid cases in Mayo

Twenty-seven Covid patients are in care at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) today.

That's a rise of two over the past 24 hours.

Three new cases were admitted to the Castlebar facility yesterday.

None of the 27 cases are in intensive care, the HSE confirmed.

MUH has the seventh highest number of virus patients in the country.

Galway University Hospital has 30 and Sligo University Hospital 14.

Nationally, there are 526 Covid cases hospitalised.