Ireland reports 2 more deaths as COVID-19 cases top 1,000

Photo taken on March 23, 2020 shows a view of the shutdown campus of University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. Two more COVID-19 patients died while another 219 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Ireland on Monday, the country's Department of Health said in a statement. To date, there have been a total of 1,125 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six COVID-19-related deaths in the country, said the statement, adding that the latest two victims of the disease are both male from the east of Ireland. (Xinhua)