Coronavirus: Three further deaths and 474 new cases
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of three additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 4,899 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday, April 28, the HPSC has been notified of 474 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There is now a total of 248,326* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
-239 are men / 232 are women
-71% are under 45 years of age
-The median age is 32 years old
-167 in Dublin, 39 in Kildare, 37 in Cork, 36 in Donegal, 29 in Meath and the remaining 166 cases are spread across all other counties**.
As of 8am today, 155 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 44 are in ICU.
There has been 14 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of April 27, some 1,452,434 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland: 1,041,284 people have received their first doses and 411,150 people have received their second dose.
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community including daily data on Ireland’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.
* Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of five confirmed cases. The figure of 248,326 confirmed cases reflects this.
**County data should be considered provisional as the national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR) is a dynamic system and case details are continually being validated and updated.
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