1,232 people have now died since the pandemic began.
A further 43 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19, the Department of Health has confirmed.
This means a total of 1, 232 have now died due to the virus since the pandemic began.
359 new cases were also confirmed by public health officials, bringing the total amount of known cases to 20,612.
Today’s data from the HPSC, as of midnight, Tuesday 28th April (20,111 cases), reveals:
- 58% are female and 42% are male
- The median age of confirmed cases is 49 years
- 2,706 cases (13%) have been hospitalised
- Of those hospitalised, 360 cases have been admitted to ICU
- 5,684 cases are associated with healthcare workers
- Dublin has the highest number of cases at 9,967 (50% of all cases) followed by Kildare with 1,193 cases (6%) and then Cork with 1,146 cases (6%)
- Of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 63%, close contact accounts for 33%, travel abroad accounts for 3%
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said: “The latest report of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers reveals that 34% of cases relate to nurses, healthcare assistants amount to 24% and cases among doctors is at 7%.
“Since the pandemic began in Ireland 72 nurses, 40 healthcare assistants, 22 doctors and 45 other allied healthcare workers have been hospitalised with COVID-19.”
