LATEST: Confirmed Carlow Covid-19 cases increase with another 59 deaths confirmed
By Conor Ganly
Published 29th Apr 2020, 08:55 BST
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The Department of Health has reported 59 more deaths and an additional 299 confirmed cases of the virus in Ireland.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre confirmed the cases on Tuesday.
The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Carlow rose slightly. There are now 93 confirmed cases in the county - an increase of one on Monday's figure.
There have now been a total of 19,877 confirmed cases of the virus in Ireland.
The death toll now stands at 1,159.
The National Public Health Emergency Team said 45 of the new reported deaths were confirmed in a laboratory. The rest are considered "probable" Covid-19 related deaths.
Two previous deaths have been denotified by the HSPC.