Two deaths and 767 new confirmed cases in Ireland

HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE confirmed 767 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.

The total number of cases of the virus in Ireland is now 62,750 *.

The Health Department has confirmed that two more people have died from the virus. It means that the number of people in this country with coronavirus who have died is now 1,917.

Of the cases reported today, 68% are under 45 years of age, while the median age is 33.

321 cases are in Dublin, 84 in Cork, 47 in Meath, 34 in Limerick, 24 in Roscommon and the remaining 257 cases are distributed in all other counties.

As of 2:00 p.m. today, 322 patients with covid-19 are hospitalized, of which 44 are in the ICU. There have been 16 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.

The 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 population as of November 1 is 248.0, with 11,808 new confirmed cases during that period.

In Northern Ireland, another 493 new cases and eight deaths of people who had contracted Covid-19 were confirmed this afternoon.

Over 14,000 tests have been completed in the last 24 hours and 95,846 tests have been completed in the last seven days. The positive rate for the last seven days is 5.2%, which compares with 4% overall.

* Validation of the data at the HPSC resulted in the unreporting of 19 cases.