The CEO of the Health Service Executive has said there were 13,000 GP referrals for testing received on Monday, which was more than double that of the same day last week.
Paul Reid said 21,000 referrals were received within two days, which included a large amount of school children and people in North Dublin.
He said they had mobilised testing in this area as a result. At today's briefing he said the average number of new Covid-19 cases over the last seven days is 151, up from 120 last week.
The number of patients in ICU is 6 while admissions of confirmed cases to hospital has been trending upwards, and was at 50 last night.