THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry this evening.

When the number is less than five, the exact number is not revealed until the following day on the COVID data hub on the gov.ie website.

There were eight more deaths reported and 309 new cases of the virus reported nationally this evening. Of the deaths reported today, four occurred in April, two occurred in February and two occurred in January or earlier. The median age of those who died was 79-years old, while the age range was 43 to 92.

The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 43.3 per 100,000 people. There have been 64 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 6.

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 122.6.

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107 cases are in Dublin, 30 in Kildare, 14 in Offaly, 21 in Meath, 14 in Limerick, while the remaining 104 cases are spread across 18 other counties.

There have now been 242,402 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,820 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.

As of 8am today, 184 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 51 are in ICU.

As of Tuesday, 1,094,964 vaccines had been administered to those aged 16 or over .
• 769,721  people have received their first dose
• 325,243 people have received their second dose