Covid-19 Friday: 3 deaths, 313 new cases

THE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3 additional deaths related to Covid-19.

There has been a total of 2,120 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight Thursday, 11 December, the HPSC has been notified of 313 confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 75,507* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

• 144 are men / 169 are women
• 67% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 35 years old
• 70 in Dublin, 31 in Mayo, 21 in Kilkenny, 19 in Donegal, 18 in Laois and the remaining 154 cases are spread across 19 other counties.

As of 2pm today 197 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 35 are in ICU. There were 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of Covid-19 in the community.

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 9 confirmed cases. The figure of 75,507 confirmed cases reflects this.

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