The Department of Health has announced that a further 18 people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 here have died. It brings the overall number of deaths here to 1,446.
In a statement this evening, the Department also confirmed an additional 219 new cases of the virus, bringing the overall number infected here to 22,760.
The latest data from the department, as of midnight last Thursday, shows that 13% of cases so far have been hospitalised. Of those, 381 cases have been admitted to intensive care.
Overall, healthcare workers account for over 6,669 cases, or 29.6%. The median age of cases so far is 49. Dublin has the highest number of cases at 10,948 (49% of all cases) followed by Kildare with 1,317 cases (6%) and then Cork with 1,205