Another 624 Covid cases and two more lives lost
THERE were two further deaths and 624 more cases of Covid-19 notified to the Department of Health last night.
This brings the total toll in Ireland’s pandemic to 4,653 Covid-19 related deaths – and 233,937 confirmed cases.
Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid said in a post on Twitter that ‘thankfully’ the figures were coming down.
However, he cautioned that this was happening ‘slower than we would all like’.
The tentative good news within the figures was that the number of patients with
Covid-19 in ICU was down three to 64.
This means the number of people in intensive care with the disease has dropped by 70% since a peak of 221 on January 24.
As of last night, there were 304 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in hospitals compared with 2,020 on January 18.
This is a drop of almost 85%.
Mr Reid warned that Dublin hospitals have the highest number of Covid-19 patients in their wards.
‘We all want this trend to continue down and avoid the tide turning against us again,’ he added.
Of last night’s cases, 309 are men and 313 are women. A total 75% are under 45 and the median age is 32.
In terms of geographical spread, 308 of the cases are in Dublin, 41 in Kildare, 38 in Donegal, 31 in Meath, 29 in Offaly, and the remaining cases are spread across 18 other counties.’
As of Wednesday last, 732,678 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered with 529,984 people receiving their first dose and 202,694 receiving their second one.