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Did you venture outside the 5km - Leitrim in top 4 of non-compliant counties Did you venture outside you 5km in March? Reporter: Did you stay within your 5km during Level 5 travel restrictions? Data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that there continues to be a relaxation in adherence to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Leitrim has been noted as one of four rural counties to show non-compliance with the 5km travel rule. The tenth Staying Local Indicator (SLI) uses anonymised mobile phone activity records to measure the public’s movements across seven days. It found that some 63....

Carlow, Mayo and Roscommon have the lowest percentage of people staying within 10km of home

One in six adults in Ireland have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the health minister said.

Stephen Donnelly also said that Ireland has one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 in Europe. It comes as the health service in Ireland plans to ramp up its vaccine programme following months of setbacks and missed targets. Despite plans to administer one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines throughout April, the Government revised down its target to around 860,000 vaccines. One in six adults in Ireland has now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. The no of people w/Covid in ICUs has fallen by about 75% since peak in late January. We've one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 in Europe now. ...

Tomas Doherty A further nine deaths and 443 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Republic on Tuesday. Three of the deaths occurred in January, two in February, three in March and one in April. Of the new cases, 6 were in Waterford,  208 in Dublin, 32 in Cork, 24 in Kildare, 20 in Meath, 17 in Donegal, with the remaining cases spread across all other counties. The latest figures show 261 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, with 60 in intensive care. The 14-day incidence rate in Waterford is now 69.7 cases per 100,000 of the population – that’s a 40% decrease in the space of 7 days. (...