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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have confirmed that two more people have died with Covid-19 in Ireland.
Another 511 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed, according to the latest figures from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).
The total number of Covid-19 cases is now 237,695.
The number of people who have died has reached 4,715.
Last night, Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Medical Director, called on the public to adhere to public health councils this weekend to ensure a safe Easter.
“Over the past year, the vast majority have done everything they can to protect themselves and their families from Covid-19, please do it again this weekend,” he tweeted.
Glynn urged people to “keep your contacts low and meet other people outdoors.”
The latest Covid-19 infection figures come as the HSE said the country will exceed one million total doses of vaccine administered next week.
Vaccine figures are being closely watched, as politicians and health officials have consistently said that the vaccine supply will increase in the second quarter of the year starting in April.
HSE CEO Paul Reid tweeted this afternoon that more than 900,000 total doses will have been administered by this weekend and the one million mark will be surpassed thereafter.
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He said this was partly due to a good Good Friday in vaccination figures.
Yesterday, Good Friday, we had one of our highest days yet for the administration of the vaccine. We will have completed more than 900,000 by this weekend. Over the next week, we will have delivered over 1 million doses. April and May will expand the program even further @HSELive
– Paul Reid (@paulreiddublin) April 3, 2021
There is a two-day delay in the release of vaccination figures, so the most recent day for which we have detailed figures is Wednesday March 31st.
As of Wednesday, a total of 865,460 doses were administered, which are broken down into 619,003 first doses and 246,457 second doses.
By percentage of the population, 13% of the country has received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and just over 5.1% consider themselves fully vaccinated.
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