Previously, the youngest person to die from Covid in Ireland was 17.
A 14-year-old has become the youngest person to die from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland, RTÉ reports.
Prior to the teenager’s death, the youngest person to die from the disease in Ireland was a 17-year-old. The oldest person to die from the virus was 105.
Reports of the young person’s death comes as 25 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded in the past week.
To date, 5,566 people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland.
Yesterday, the Department of Health said that there were 3,680 new cases of the virus in Ireland.
As of last night, the number of patients who have tested positive for Covid in hospital is 543, which is eight patients less than the previous day. However, there has been an increase of eight patients being treated in the ICU, bringing the the total to 97.
Yesterday, the HSE’s CEO Paul Reid spoke about the pressure Ireland’s hospitals are under as outbreaks from Covid-19 continue to rise.
On RTÉ’s News at One, he said: “No health system on its own can get its way out of this … and cope with that level of surge and relentlessness at a peak that we are seeing right now.”
He added that the action people take in the coming weeks will have a significant impact on both the case numbers and the health system.
Mr Reid said: “We can turn this around, boosters will help and third vaccines for immunocompromised are helping, but there is a timeframe, particularly over the next few weeks, [where] the actions we take will have a huge benefit.”
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, meanwhile, has ruled out the possibility of a Christmas lockdown. On TodayFM, the Fianna Fáil leader said that due to the vaccine rollout, we are now in a stronger position than we were in this time last year.
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