There have been no further deaths from Covid-19 and 326 new cases of the virus notified to the Department of Health in the past 24 hours.
This includes 152 new cases in Dublin and 22 in Donegal. Earlier today, President Michael D Higgins addressed a virtual UN meeting on universal access to Covid-19 healthcare from Áras An Uachtaráin. "This pandemic has demonstrated, with often tragic consequences, that new ideas are now required.
Ideas based on equity of access, suffiency, sustainability," he said. "It has demonstrated an unequivocal need for a new eco-social-political economy, of having universal basic services that will protect us in the future, of enabling people to achieve sufficiency in what they need. "As President of Ireland I am