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THERE were seven new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing this evening.
There were 18 additional deaths and 683 more cases reported nationally. Of the deaths reported today, six occurred in March, seven in February and five in January.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 48.7 per 100,000 people. There have been 72 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 3.
Kerry is the county with the third lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days (after Kilkenny and Cork). The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 159.3.
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308 in Dublin, 68 in Donegal, 49 in Kildare, 35 in Meath, 30 in Offaly and the remaining 193 cases are spread across 21 other counties
There have now been 232,164 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,628 people who died with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8am today, 329 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 76 are in ICU. There have been 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Sunday (21 March), there have been 680,015 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 495,824 people have received their first dose
• 184,191 people have received their second dose
