Twenty-seven more people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland bringing the overall death toll to 1,429. 156 more cases of the coronavirus have also been diagnosed in the Republic, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 22,541.
Today's data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, as of midnight on Wednesday 6 May (22,301 cases), shows that 57% of the diagnosed cases are female and 43% are male.
The median age of confirmed cases is 49 years. 2,915 cases (13%) have been hospitalised and of those hospitalised, 373 cases have been admitted to ICU.
Of all the cases, 6,586 are associated with healthcare workers. Dublin has the highest number of cases at 10,885 (49% of all cases) followed by Kildare with 1,312 cases (6%) and then Cork with