The Department of Health has been notified of four further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 429 new cases of the disease. The number of people in ICU is 33, unchanged since yesterday.
There are 290 patients with coronavirus in Irish hospitals. It comes as the National Public Health Emergency Team met again today amid rising concerns that the progress in tackling Covid-19 nationally appears to have slowed significantly over the past week.
The latest numbers show that new confirmed cases of the virus are running at just over 400 per week, broadly unchanged on the situation one week ago.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said he is becoming increasingly concerned that the progress made during the first three weeks of the Level 5