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Coronavirus: 556 New Cases And 68 Additional Deaths
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 68 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
50 of these deaths occurred in February,15 occurred in January and 2 in December .
The median age of those who died was 85 years and the age range was 43-96 years.
There has been a total of 3,752 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Sunday 7th February, the HPSC has been notified of 556 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In the midlands a total of 36 new COVID-19 cases have been identified, Offaly has the highest figures with 18 new cases of the virus.