Less than five new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Clare this evening with 349 new cases confirmed nationwide.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 18 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
17 deaths occurred in March, and 1 in February.
The median age of those who died was 78 years and the age range was 55 to 102 years.
There has been a total of 4,552 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Monday 15th March, the HPSC has been notified of 349 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 227,663* confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
As of 8am today, 355 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 88 are in ICU. 36 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.