There have been 10 further coronavirus-related deaths and 6,521 new cases of the disease notified to the Department of Health.
The backlog of cases due to a delay in reporting positive laboratory results has now been cleared. A total of 2,307 people have died with coronavirus in Ireland with the cumulative total number of infections having reached 127,657.
The number of patients with Covid-19 in ICU has reached 96, this is an increase of eight since yesterday. There are 1,043 patients in hospital with the disease, with 99 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Professor Philip Nolan said Ireland was facing the "fastest rate of growth" of coronavirus since March with "exceptionally high levels of disease".