BREAKING: Limerick's daily Covid-19 case numbers confirmed as over 300,000 receive second vaccination

As of midnight, Tuesday April 13, the HPSC has been notified of 431 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 242,105** confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. Of the cases confirmed today, 20 are attributed to Limerick.

Meanwhile, as of April 12, 1,076,216 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:

758,763 people have received their first dose while 317,453 people have received their second dose

Of the cases notified today:

204 are men / 226 are women

70% are under 45 years of age

The median age is 33 years old

160 in Dublin, 50 in Kildare, 34 in Donegal, 21 in Meath, 20 in Limerick and the remaining 146 cases are spread across 20 other counties***

As of 8am today, 192 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 49 are in ICU. 13 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 12 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

Of the deaths reported today, 4 occurred in April, 2 occurred in March and 6 occurred in January.

The median age of those who died was 76 years and the age range was 42-91 years.

There has been a total of 4,812* COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community including daily data on Ireland’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.