The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that 39 people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland have died.
Locally, the number of cases in Kilkenny and Carlow have increased again. Kilkenny now has 197 confirmed cases of Covid-19, up from 179 on Saturday.
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Carlow too has seen an increase with cases in the county now at 71.
Of today’s reported deaths
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- 37 deaths located in the east, 2 in the west of the country
- The deaths included 19 females and 20 males
- The median age of today’s reported deaths is 84
- 29 people were reported as having underlying health conditions
They bring the total of Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland past 600 for the first time.
Nationally, 445 new cases were confirmed by Irish labs early on Sunday morning. A further 48 were reported by the German lab helping to clear the backlog of Irish tests.
Those figures combined bring the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Ireland to 15,251.
