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Galway has now gone four days in a row with no new confirmed coronavirus cases, with the city and county total remaining at 481 cases.
There have been been 9 further deaths of people with Covid-19 reported today, bringing the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland to 1,678.
Another 24 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported to the HPSC today. There have now been 25,183 confirmed cases in the state.
Validation of data by the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 1 death and 4 previously confirmed cases.
Today’s data from the HPSC, as of midnight, Thursday 4 June (25,159 cases), reveals:
- 57% are female and 43% are male
- the median age of confirmed cases is 48 years
- 3,319 cases (13%) have been hospitalised
- of those hospitalised, 410 cases have been admitted to ICU
- 8,059 cases are associated with healthcare workers
- Dublin has the highest number of cases at 12,127 (48% of all cases) followed by Cork with 1,528 cases (6%) and then Kildare with 1,423 cases (6%)
- of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 39%, close contact accounts for 59%, travel abroad accounts for 2%
