The Department of Health has confirmed 1,861 further Covid-19 cases here in the Republic of Ireland. There are 249 people being treated with the virus in our hospitals and of these 54 Covid-19 patients remain in intensive care.
There have been, sadly, 15 further deaths related to Covid-19 notified in the Republic of Ireland in the past 7 days, according to the National Public Health Emergency Team. This brings the number of Covid-related deaths to now stands at 5,074.
Health Service Executive CEO Mr Paul Reid has today confirmed the biggest weekly delivery of vaccines with some 540,000 doses being delivered, hugely boosted by the first tranche of a total of 700,000 Romanian reallocated vaccines.
In Northern Ireland, 1,345 further cases were confirmed today, with, sadly, 11 further deaths recorded, latter the highest number since mid-February of this year.
The above confirmed figures bring to 3,206 the overall number of new Covid-19 cases present on the whole island of Ireland, reported over the past 24 hours.
Covid-19 has not gone away.
The battle against Covid – 19 is sadly far from over.
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