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There have been eight further deaths related to COVID-19 and 309 new cases of the virus in Ireland.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) says of the deaths reported four occurred in April, two were in February and a further two happened in January or earlier.
The median age of those who died was 79 years, and the age range was between 43 and 92 years.
There has been a total of 4,820 COVID-19 related deaths and 242,402 cases here.
These figures include the denotification of 12 cases.
Of the cases notified today:
168 are men / 141 are women
71% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 35 years old
400 people have contracted Covid-19 in the Republic, and 7 infected patients are confirmed to have died.
There are 162 new cases in Dublin, 61 in Kildare, 26 in Cork, 21 in Galway, and 17 in Donegal.
The five-day average is 408 a drop of over 23% on last week.
The reproduction number has fallen to between 0.7 to 1.1, down from being over 1 in recent weeks.
Head of the team s modelling group, Professor Phillip Nolan, says any slight increase after schools reopened is explained by more testing.