The Department of Health has been notified of 89 additional cases of Covid-19 and one further death. There has been a total of 1,777 coronavirus-related deaths in Ireland following the denotification of one previously confirmed case.
Case numbers now stand at 29,114. The R number - the average number of people one infected person will transmit the virus to - is now just above 1, possibly as high as 1.2.
The one further death reported today relates to June. Professor Philip Nolan, chair of NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said it was, in fact, more than two weeks since somebody had died with Covid in Ireland.