Covid-19: 9 deaths and 443 confirmed cases reported to NPHET

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 9 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

3 of these deaths occurred in January, 2 in February, 3 in March and 1 in April.

There has been a total of 4,727 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Monday 5^th April, the HPSC has been notified of 443 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

There is now a total of 238,907* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

• 239 are men / 203 are women
• 75% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 31 years old
• 208 in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 142 spread across 19 other counties. **

As of 8am today, 261 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 60 are in ICU. 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of April 3^rd 2021, 932,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 660,800 people have received their first dose
• 271,524 people have received their second dose