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THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry 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 five additional deaths and 423 more cases reported nationally. Four of these deaths occurred in April, and one in February.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 27.8 per 100,000 people. There have been 41 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 3.
Kerry is the county with the second lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days. The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 151.6.
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199 in Dublin, 41 in Kildare, 23 in Meath, 20 in Galway, 18 in Westmeath and the remaining 122 are spread across 19 other counties.
There have now been 239,325 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,732 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 232 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 56 are in ICU. There have been 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Sunday (4 April) there have been 936,087 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 663,411 people have received their first dose
• 272,676 people have received their second dose
