Covid-19: Two further deaths; 591 new cases By Marc O Driscoll The country s vaccination roll-out programme is continuing this weekend.
The Department of Health has been notified of two further Covid-19-related deaths and 591 new cases of the virus.
It brings the cumulative number of known cases to 237,695 while the country s death toll since the start of the pandemic now stands at 4,715.
There have been 865,460 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered in the Republic up until Wednesday. This figure consists of 619,003 first doses and 246,457 second doses.
No county-by-county breakdown of the cases reported today has been provided by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).