The median age of those who died was 67 years.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to Covid-19.
Four of the deaths occurred in March, one in February, one in January and four are under investigation.
The median age of those who died was 67 years and the age range was 41 – 83 years.
The HPSC has been notified of 646 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
243 in Dublin, 80 in Kildare, 45 in Meath, 35 in Galway, 34 in Offaly and the remaining 209 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
As of 8am today, 344 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU.
There have been 16 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
As of 9 March, 553,161 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland:
- 396,089 people have received their first dose
- 157,072 people have received their second dose
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