Two millionth vaccine to have been administered today

Thirteen new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Meath today as the National Public Health Emergency Team confirmed a further 456 cases of the virus in the county.

No additional deaths among people with COVID-19 in Ireland were reported today.

The incident rate in the Ashbourne electoral area has soared over the past week.

In the two weeks up to last Monday, Ashbourne had the highest incidence rate of the virus in Meath at 202.9 per 100,000 of population and 59 new cases. This was up from 151.3 per 100k last week.

This compares with the national incidence rate of 128.1 per 100k.

Laytown/Bettystown had 63 new cases in the same period and a rate of 184.6, while Trim had 47 cases and a rate of 150.7.

The incidence rate had fallen in Navan from 234.7 last week to 143.1 this week and there were 50 new cases.

There were 29 new cases in Ratoath where the rate is 87 and Kells had the lowest rate at 58.6 and had 19 new cases.

Meanwhile, the number of people to have received their first vaccination was expected to have passed two million today.

As of last Tuesday (11th May) there have been 1,922,913 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland: 1,408,105 people had received their first dose and 514,808 people had received their second dose.

There have now been 254,450 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,937 deaths.

As of 8am today, 111 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 36 are in ICU. There have been 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Of the cases notified today:

233 are men and 223 are women

81% are under 45 years of age

the median age is 27 years old

189 are in Dublin, 52 in Cork, 49 in Donegal, 39 in Kildare, 17 in Galway and the remaining 110 cases are spread across 20 other counties.