The Department of Health has confirmed that 39 more people have died from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll here to 610.
A further 445 new cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed. In addition, there are 48 cases of Covid-19 from the backlog of tests at the laboratory in Germany, bringing total additional cases today to 493.
There are now 15,251 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland. There are 454 clusters of the virus – a cluster relates to at least two cases.
Nursing homes account for 165 of these clusters, while there are 71 in residential institutions and 22 outbreaks in community hospitals or long-stay units.