Thirty-four more people who were diagnosed with Covid-19 have died in Ireland, the Department of Health has said. There have now been a total of 1,265 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
There have also been 221 more cases of the coronavirus diagnosed here, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 20,833. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has said that as of midnight on Wednesday 29 April there were 20,510 cases.
The median age of those diagnosed with Covid-19 was 49. 2,768 of those cases resulted in hospitalisation, with 367 people admitted to intensive care units.
5,840 of the cases are associated with healthcare workers. Half of all cases were in Dublin (10,170), with Kildare the next highest county on 1,215 followed by Cork on