THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing 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 two additional deaths and 624 more cases reported nationally. Both deaths occurred this month.

The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 33.2 per 100,000 people. There have been 49 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 2.

Kerry is the county with the lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days. The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 159.9.

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308 in Dublin, 41 in Kildare, 38 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 29 in Offaly and the remaining 177 cases are spread across 18 other counties.

There have now been 233,937 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,653 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.

As of 8am today, 304 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 64 are in ICU. 21 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of last Wednesday (24 March), there have been 732,678 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 529,984 people have received their first dose
• 202,694 people have received their second dose