523,069 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland

Our Lady's Hospital, Navan has reminded medically vulnerable patients that they will be contacted directly by the hospital for vaccination for Covid-19 and they don't need to get in touch with the hospital.

As the roll out of vaccination for the vulnerable patients in the 16 to 65 age group begins, the Navan hospital is due to start vaccinating next week.

As of last Saturday (6th March), there have been 523,069 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland - 373,149 people have received their first dose and 149,920 people have received their second dose.

Meanwhile, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 30 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

12 of the deaths occurred in March, 13 in February, four in January and one is under investigation.

There has been a total of 4,452 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

Health officials also confirmed a further 311 cases of COVID-19 today, 12 of them in Meath. There has now been a total of 223,957 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

159 are men and 149 are women

64% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 34 years old

135 are in Dublin, 29 in Kildare, 21 in Cork, 18 in Limerick, 14 in Louth and the remaining 94 cases are spread across 16 other counties

As of 8am today, 397 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 95 are in ICU. There have been 24 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.