New figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre show that the number of Covid-19 outbreaks in Ireland increased last week.
There were 173 outbreaks, an increase of 45 on the previous week. The number of reported outbreaks rose in private houses, workplaces, residential institutions and hospitals.
However, outbreaks in nursing homes reduced from six to three. There were 34 private house outbreaks, 24 in the workplace, 20 in residential institutions and ten in hospitals.
While there were 34 outbreaks reported in schools last week, this included 32 outbreaks reported late from May and June. Latest coronavirus stories There were 2,975 new cases of Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health yesterday.