The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
9 deaths occurred in March, one date of death remains under investigation.
There has been a total of 4,576 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight Thursday 18 March, the HPSC has been notified of 507 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There has now been a total of 229,306* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
249 are men and 255 are women
70% are under 45 years of age
the median age is 33 years old
216 in Dublin, 40 in Kildare, 29 in Galway, 24 in Offaly, 18 in Tipperary, and the remaining 180 cases are spread across 20 other counties.
As of 8am today, 336 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 87 are in ICU. 43 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
