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THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry this afternoon.
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 18 additional deaths and 761 more cases reported nationally. Of the deaths reported today, 11 occurred in March and seven occurred in February. The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 59 – 95 years.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 24.4 per 100,000 people. There have been 36 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 3.
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 164.9.
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372 in Dublin, 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties
There have now been 236,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,705 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 274 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 63 are in ICU. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Monday (29 March), there have been 819,676 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 590,688 people have received their first dose
• 228,988 people have received their second dose
