Ireland's Covid-19 case figures are rising at a rate health officials are increasingly concerned about and unhappy with. As of last night, there were 30,571 cases of the virus confirmed - and those numbers have increased by more than 3,600 in the last month alone.
Senior health officials are now warning of an exponential growth in cases where numbers creep up slowly but then the pace increases.
One official told RTÉ News that we are currently looking at a doubling in cases over a 16-day period. The source also said that the growth in cases will not be what we experienced in March where cases doubled over a 3.5-day period.