The Department of Health has been notified of nine more coronavirus-related deaths and 1,546 new cases of the disease. This is the highest number of new infections reported in a single day since the pandemic began.
The number of patients in ICU with Covid-19 is 34, an increase of four since yesterday. There are 411 patients with the disease in hospital with 47 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
There has been a big increase in new Covid-19 cases in Northern Ireland with 1,566 positive tests confirmed in the past 24 hours.
Earlier today, a 79-year-old Dublin woman became the first person in the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Annie Lynch, a grandmother of 10, was administered the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at St James's