The Department of Health has announced that a further 49 people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of deaths to 769.
Ten deaths that had previously been reported are no longer classified as related to Covid-19. Of the 769 deaths, 386 people died in a hospital setting, with 50 of those in ICU.
The median age of those admitted to ICU is 60. The number of additional cases of the virus diagnosed here is 631, bringing the total number of cases here to 16,671.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan said there were 302 clusters in community residential care settings, 179 of which were in nursing homes.