The Department of Health was notified of 1,296 new cases of Covid-19 today. There has now been 85,394 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
A further six deaths have occurred, bringing the total number of Covid-19 related deaths to 2,200. Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said: "For the second day in a row we are reporting more than a thousand confirmed cases of Covid-19. "Within a few short weeks of easing measures at the beginning of December, we have now returned to the very high levels of Covid-19 circulating in the community that we have not seen since the peak of Wave Two of this disease.
This is very concerning." "While today is a positive day with the arrival of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine, it does not mean that we