22 more deaths from Covid-19 in the Republic

Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that 22 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland have died.

·        18
deaths located in the east, 3 in the south, 1 in the west of the country.

·        The
patients included 11 females and 11 males.

·        16
patients were reported as having underlying health conditions

·        Median
age of today’s reported deaths is 80

There have now been 120 COVID-19 related deaths
in Ireland.

The median age of deaths in Ireland is 82.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre
has been informed of 424 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland, as
at 1pm, Thursday 2nd April.

There are now 4,273 confirmed cases of COVID-19
in Ireland.