The Department of Health has been notified of 68 further deaths and an additional 556 cases of Covid-19. Fifty of these deaths occurred in February,15 occurred in January and two in December.
The median age of those who died was 85 years and the age range was 43-96 years. In total there has been 3,752** Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
The number of people with coronavirus in ICU is 182, up six on yesterday. Today's new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases here to 204,940.
Earlier, the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said that legislation on quarantine hotels in Ireland would be published next week. He said he did not want to see Ireland acting as a back door to another country.