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THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry again today.
There were four additional deaths and 434 new cases of the virus reported nationally.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is just 14.9 per 100,000 people. There have been 22 cases reported in Kerry the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 2.2.
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Kerry is still the county with the lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days. The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 129.7.
197 in Dublin, 44 in Cork, 34 in Kildare, 20 in Limerick, 20 in Meath and the remaining 119 cases are spread across 16 other counties
There have now been 251,904 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,918 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 126 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 34 are in ICU. There have been 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Wednesday (5 May) there have been 1,700,538 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 1,233,067 people have received their first dose
• 467,471 people have received their second dose
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