There have been six further Covid-19 related deaths and 772 new cases of the disease notified to the Department of Health in the past 24 hours.
There has been a total of 1,908 coronavirus-related deaths in Ireland. The total number of cases is 61,059. This includes the denotification of 10 previously confirmed cases.
The number of people in ICU is 42, a decrease of one since yesterday. There are 325 patients with the virus in hospitals as of 2pm today, with 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Case numbers had been increasing since June but have started to reduce over the last week for the first time. The R (reproductive) number is now estimated to be close to 1.