The Department of Health has announced that a further 12 people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 here have died. It brings the overall death toll here to 1,458.
The Department has also confirmed an additional 236 confirmed cases of the virus, bringing the overall number of people infected here to 22,996.
More than 700 patients remain in the country's acute hospitals with confirmed or suspected cases of Covid-19. The latest data from the department as of midnight on Friday shows that 2,986 cases – or 13% of all cases – have required hospitalisation.
Of those, 383 cases were admitted to ICU. Healthcare workers account for 29.8% of confirmed cases so far, with 6,771 confirmed cases.