355 Covid-19 patients are currently hospitalised.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
17 deaths occurred in March and one occurred in February.
The median age of those who died was 78 years and the age range was 55 – 102 years.
The HPSC has been notified of 349 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
56 of the cases are in Dublin, 23 in Meath, 19 in Donegal, 15 in Louth, 14 in Kildare and the remaining 122 cases are spread across all other counties.
As of 8am today, 355 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 88 are in ICU.
There have been 36 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of 13 March, 615,934 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 451,589 people have received their first dose
- 164,345 people have received their second dose
