Covid-19 Saturday: 1 death, 408 cases

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

There has been a total of 4,919 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday 7^th May, the HPSC has been notified of 408 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

There has now been a total of 252,303* confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today:

• 205 are men / 202 are women
• 77% are under 45 years of age
• The median age is 31 years old

As of 8am today, 110 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. There were nine additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of May 6^th, 1,746,912 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

• 1,267,167 people have received their first dose
• 479,745 people have received their second dose

*Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of nine cases. The figure of 252,303 confirmed cases reflects this.

• 5-day moving average 406