Covid update: 14 deaths reported, 539 new cases

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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 14 additional deaths related to COVID-19.

Nine deaths occurred in March, one occurred in February and four in January or earlier.

The median age of those who died was 80 years and the age range was 59-94 years.

There has been a total of 4,419 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Friday March 5, the HPSC has been notified of 539 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 222,699* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.

Of the cases notified today, 295 are men and 240 are women and 69% are under 45 years of age.

The median age is 33 years old.

There have been 245 new cases reported in Dublin, 42 in Meath, 29 in Kildare, 26 in Limerick, 24 in Cork and the remaining 173 cases are spread across 19 other counties.

Seven new cases have been reported in Cavan, bringing to 99 the number of new cases reported in the past 14 days in the county.

As of 8am today, 414 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 101 are in ICU. There have been 22 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.

As of March 3, 474,645 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ireland; 328,598 people have received their first dose and 146,047 people have received their second dose.