There have been 25 further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 566 new cases of the virus confirmed by the Department of Health this evening. This takes the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Ireland to 4,357, while the total case count in the State has now risen to 221,189. Five of the deaths occurred in March,13 occurred in February and six occurred in January or earlier. There have been 233 new cases confirmed in Dublin, 37 in Kildare, 30 in Meath, 25 in Donegal, 24 in Westmeath and the remaining 217 cases are spread across all other counties. It was confirmed today that Ireland missed its target of 100,000 vaccinations for last week and that it would also fall short of this week’s target due to a supply issue with Astrazeneca’s vaccine.

Source: Irish Independent March 03, 2021 17:53 UTC