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THERE were five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing this evening.
There were 10 additional deaths and 592 more cases reported nationally. Eight of these deaths occurred in March, one occurred in February and one in January. The median age was 75 years and age range 0-84 years.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 61.6 per 100,000 people. There have been 91 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 6.
Kerry is the county with the fourth lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days (after Leitrim, Cork and Kilkenny). The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 162.1.
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253 in Dublin, 52 in Kildare, 35 in Donegal, 33 in Meath, 28 in Galway and the remaining 191 cases are spread across all other counties.
There have now been 225,179 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,509 people who died with the virus since the start of then pandemic.
As of 8am today, 359 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU. There have been 32 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
