A TOTAL of 54 more deaths have been recorded and an additional 1,006 cases of coronavirus – including nine in Kerry – were confirmed today as the numbers nationally remain extremely high and the pandemic continues to maintain a firm grip on the country.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre said 45 of the deaths occurred in February, five date back to January and the timeline for four others is still under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 86 years and the age range of those that passed away was from 48 to 104 years.
There have been 3,794 Covid-19 related fatalities in Ireland and the number of known cases has now risen to 205,939.
Early this Wednesday morning, 1,032 patients with Covid-19 were being treated in hospitals with 173 in intensive care. There have been 40 additional coronavirus related hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
Of the cases notified today 524 are female and 476 are male, 65 per cent are under 45 years of age and the median age of those affected is 35.
516 of the newly diagnosed cases are in Dublin, 63 in Cork, 46 in Galway, 43 in Meath and 36 in Louth with the remaining 302 cases spread across all other counties, including the nine in Kerry.
A total of 203 positive tests have been returned in Kerry in the past 14 days but Kerry is the third lowest county in the country in terms of the 14-day incidence rate which stands at 137.4 per 100,000 population.
Roscommon and Leitrim are faring better in Kerry in terms of incidence rate statistics and the worst hit areas are Monaghan, Waterford, Carlow, Wexford and Dublin.
As of February 7, there were 240,487 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ireland with 153,654 people having received their first dose and 86,833 people have received their second dose.
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