The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been informed that a total of 10 people with Covid-19 have died.
There have now been a total 1,543 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of 11am Sunday 17 May, the HPSC has been notified of 64 new confirmed cases of Covid-19. There is now a total of 24,112 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
There are now a total of 475 confirmed cases in Donegal, a rise of one (474) on the previous day’s figure.
Worringly though, there has been a spike in the number of suspected Covid-19 patients in Letterkenny University Hospital. At 8pm on Saturday night there were 28 patients being treated in LUH with suspected Covid with a further 12 confirmed coronavirus patients receiving treatment in Letterkenny.
Note: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre have advised that in the process of validating data and reviewing addresses, cases may be reassigned to another county.
| County | Number of cases | % of total |
| Carlow | 146 | 0.6 |
| Cavan | 781 | 3.3 |
| Clare | 314 | 1.3 |
| Cork | 1352 | 5.6 |
| Donegal | 475 | 2 |
| Dublin | 11666 | 48.8 |
| Galway | 418 | 1.7 |
| Kerry | 307 | 1.3 |
| Kildare | 1361 | 5.7 |
| Kilkenny | 298 | 1.2 |
| Laois | 253 | 1.1 |
| Leitrim | 79 | 0.3 |
| Limerick | 601 | 2.5 |
| Longford | 277 | 1.2 |
| Louth | 739 | 3.1 |
| Mayo | 547 | 2.3 |
| Meath | 778 | 3.2 |
| Monaghan | 480 | 2 |
| Offaly | 459 | 1.9 |
| Roscommon | 301 | 1.3 |
| Sligo | 129 | 0.5 |
| Tipperary | 523 | 2.2 |
| Waterford | 146 | 0.6 |
| Westmeath | 655 | 2.7 |
| Wexford | 212 | 0.9 |
| Wicklow | 656 | 2.7 |
*All statistics measured at midnight on Friday 15 May.
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