50 new cases of Covid-19 in Meath

There have been 50 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Meath today along with 772 new cases nationwide.

Sadly, health officials have also confirmed that a further six people have died with Covid-19 in Ireland.

It means the number of people in this country with coronavirus who have died now stands at 1,908.

The National Public Health Emergency Team has also said that a further 772 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases in Ireland to 61,059.

Of the cases notified today;

362 are men / 406 are women

64 per cent are under 45 years of age

The median age is 36 years old

There were 228 cases in Dublin, 120 in Cork, 50 in Meath, 41 in Donegal, 41 in Galway and the remaining 292 cases are spread across all remaining counties.

There are currently 325 people in hospital, of which 42 are in ICU. There have been 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

Dr Tony Holohan said the overall situation has improved “but we have to remember that these are very early days. This improvement will only be maintained if we keep going in our efforts”.

“We have to remember that incidence is increasing in older age groups, who are particularly vulnerable to this disease. The way in which we can protect them is if we continue to drive down transmission across the whole population.”

Dr Desmond Hickey, Deputy Chief Medical Officer said Ireland has seen a reduction in its seven-day incidence rate of 36per cent when compared to the previous seven days.