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THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry this evening.
When the number is less than five, the exact figure is revealed the following day on the COVID data hub on gov.ie.
There were 18 more deaths reported and 358 new cases of the virus reported nationally this evening.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 37.9 per 100,000 people. There have been 56 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 4.
Kerry is the county with the fifth lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days. The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 131.7.
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166 of the cases are in Dublin, 39 in Donegal, 16 in Kildare, 13 in Offaly, 12 in Meath, 12 in Limerick and the remaining 100 cases are spread across 18 other counties,
There have now been 241,684 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,803 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 205 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 48 are in ICU. There have been 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Sunday (11 April) there have been 1,063,666 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 749,450 people have received their first dose
• 314,216 people have received their second dose
