No new deaths as Dublin Covid numbers drop overnight

The National Public Health Emergency Team has said there were no new deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today.

There has been a total of 2,022 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Sunday, November 22, the HPSC has been notified of 252 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 70,711 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today: 124 are men / 128 are women; 65% are under 45 years of age and the median age is 34 years old.

There were 88 in Dublin, 26 in Cork, 21 in Kilkenny, 16 in Louth, 16 in Mayo with 85 spread across another 20 counties

As of 2pm today, 289 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. There were 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.