LATEST: Covid-19 figures for Laois and rest of country

Laois has less than five cases of Covid-19 reported this Monday evening.

There have been no new deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre today.

There has been a total of 2,022 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.

As of midnight, Sunday 22nd November, the HPSC has been notified of 252 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 70,711 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. 

Of the cases notified today:

124 are men / 128 are women
65% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 34 years old
88 in Dublin, 26 in Cork, 21 in Kilkenny, 16 in Louth, 16 in Mayo with 85 spread across another 20 counties 
 

As of 2pm today 289 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 33 are in ICU. 11 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.