The Department of Health has been notified of 18 further deaths and 683 additional cases of Covid-19. Six of the deaths reported today occurred in March, seven in February and five in January.
There has been a total of 4,628 Covid-19 related deaths and 232,164 cases of the virus in Ireland. Of today's cases, 75% are under 45 years of age and the median age is 32 years old.
As of 8am, there were 329 people in hospital with Covid-19, with 18 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours. The number of people in ICU is 76, which is unchanged from yesterday.
Almost half a million people (495,824) have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and 184,191 people have received their second dose.