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LIKE yesterday, there were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing this evening.
When the number is below five, the exact number is not revealed until the following day on the COVID data hub. There were no additional deaths and 575 more cases reported nationally.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 50.8 per 100,000 people. There have been 75 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 5.
Kerry is the county with the third lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days (after Kilkenny and Leitrim). The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 148.3.
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232 in Dublin, 48 in Meath, 41 in Tipperary, 38 in Kildare, 30 in Galway and the remaining 186 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
There have now been 227,316 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,534 people who died with the virus since the start of then pandemic.
As of 8am today, 360 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 85 are in ICU. There have been 25 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Friday (12 March), there have been 606,904 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 443,092 people have received their first dose
• 163,812 people have received their second dose
Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: “While there has been a very understandable focus on the vaccine programme over recent days, we must not lose sight of the danger that COVID-19 continues to pose.
“While, in time, vaccines will have a very significant positive impact on COVID-19, they will not stop a further wave of disease over the coming weeks. We are seeing this play out across Europe with many countries now experiencing pressure on their hospital and critical care capacities. We must not let this happen here.
“Together, we have done an extraordinary job of driving down incidence of disease. These efforts are cause for real hope and, if we can return to decreasing indicators of disease, we can continue to protect our loved ones and look forward to much brighter days ahead.”
