A further 443 cases of Covid-19 confirmed today

On a day that the number of Covid-19 related deaths worldwide passed the three million mark, health officials in Ireland reported a further nine deaths from the virus.

A further 443 new cases of the disease were notified to the Department of Health, 20 of them in Meath.

There are 60 people in ICU with coronavirus at present and 261 are hospitalised. There have been 12 additional hospitalisations with the virus in the past 24 hours.

Three of the reported deaths occurred in January, two in February, three in March and one in April.

The latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in Ireland to 238,907 and the death toll to 4,727.

Meanwhile, as of last Saturday (3rd April) 932,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland: 660,800 people have received their first dose and 271,524 people have received their second dose.

Of the cases notified today:

239 are men / 203 are women

75 per cent are under 45 years of age

The median age is 31 years old

208 are in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal and the remaining 142 spread across 19 other counties.