The Department of Health has confirmed one further death related to Covid-19 and an additional 686 new cases of the disease.
It brings the overall number of deaths here since the pandemic of the pandemic to 4,137, with an overall total of 215,743 confirmed cases.
Of today's cases, 66% are under the age of 45, with a median age of 34. Geographically, 278 new cases were confirmed in Dublin, with 49 in Limerick, 37 in Kildare, 32 in Louth, 31 in Donegal and the remaining 259 cases are spread across all remaining counties.
As of this morning, there were 726 patients with the virus in hospital, of which 156 are in ICU. There were 33 people hospitalised with the virus over the past day.