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THERE were 19 new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing this evening which is a marked increase from daily figures for the county over the past week.
There were 13 additional deaths and 738 more cases reported nationally. Ten of these deaths occurred in February, one occurred in January, one occurred in October and one date of death remains under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 81 years and the age range was 55 – 92 years.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 46 per 100,000 people. There have been 68 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 8. 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 215.8.
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311 in Dublin, 54 in Limerick, 36 in Cork, 34 in Offaly, 33 in Donegal and the remaining 270 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
There have now been 218,980 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,313 people who died with the virus since the start of then pandemic.
As of 8am today, 550 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 135 are in ICU. There have been 27 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Wednesday (24 February), there have been 391,355 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 254,948 people have received their first dose
• 136,407 people have received their second dose
