Health authorities have confirmed a further 408 cases of COVID in Ireland today.
There have been a total of 252,303 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Sadly one person has lost their life to the deadly disease as there have been a total of 4,919 COVID-19 related deaths.
Of the cases notified today 205 are men and 202 are women.
77% of those confirmed with COVID are under 45 years of age with the median age being 31 years old.
As of this morning, 110 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, 33 are in ICU.
Nine additional hospitalisations occurred in the past 24 hours.
As of May 6, 1,746,912 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland.
1,267,167 people have received their first dose and 479,745 people have received their second dose.
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