One further death and eight new cases of Covid-19 have been announced.
The current death toll now stands at 1,706 while the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 25,303 for the entire country.
The Department of Health released the latest figures on Sunday evening.
Today’s data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), as of midnight, Friday 12 June (25,295 cases), reveals:
· 57% are female and 43% are male
· The median age of confirmed cases is 48 years
· 3,279 cases (13%) have been hospitalised
· Of those hospitalised, 416 cases have been admitted to ICU
· 8,130 cases are associated with healthcare workers
· Dublin has the highest number of cases at 12,210 (48% of all cases) followed by Cork with 1,533 cases (6%) and then Kildare with 1,432 cases (6%).
·Of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 37%, close contact accounts for 60%, travel abroad accounts for 2%
Meanwhile, no new coronavirus-linked deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland today, leaving the total reported by the Department of Health at 541.
There were new seven new confirmed cases of the virus, bringing the total in the north to 4,848 since the pandemic began.
