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THERE were six new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry at the NPHET briefing this evening.
There were no additional deaths and 437 more cases reported nationally.
The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is 66.3 per 100,000 people. There have been 98 cases reported in the same period and the rolling five day average of cases is 6.
Kerry is now the county with the third lowest incidence of cases in the past 14 days (after Cork and Kilkenny). The national incidence rate over the past 14 days is 167.
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184 in Dublin, 31 in Limerick, 26 in Donegal, 20 in Galway, 18 in Offaly and the remaining 158 cases are spread across all other counties.
There have now been 223,651 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland and 4,422 people who died with the virus since the start of then pandemic.
As of 8am today, 418 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 103 are in ICU. 20 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of last Friday (5 March), there have been 513,322 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ireland:
• 363,601 people have received their first dose
• 149,721 people have received their second dose
