Fewer than 2,000 people currently have Covid-19 in Ireland, according to figures from the Department of Health. The figures were provided this evening, and cover cases up to midnight on Sunday, 17 May.
They show 1,807 people were considered 'active' at that point. This means they had received a lab-confirmed diagnosis, and were either in hospital, recently discharged from ICU but not considered recovered, or it had not yet been 14 days since their test.
A total of 1,101 had been diagnosed in the previous two weeks but not hospitalised. 452 were in hospital, and 254 had been discharged from ICU.
Since then, the number of confirmed cases has continued on a downward trend. Due to the course of the disease in people, only a percentage of the