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LIKE yesterday, 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 11 more deaths reported and 420 new cases of the virus reported nationally this evening. Of the deaths reported today, three occurred in April, one occurred in March, two in February and five occurred in January or earlier. The median age of those who died was 88 years and the age range was 77-94 years.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 39.3 per 100,000 people. There have been 58 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. The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 119.
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147 in Dublin, 41 in Meath, 33 in Donegal, 26 in Galway, 18 in Limerick and the remaining 155 cases are spread across all other counties.
There have now been 242,819 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,831 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 190 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 53 are in ICU. 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 14th, 2021, 1,121,003 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
• 789,526 people have received their first dose
• 331,477 people have received their second dose
