The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1,361 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
As of 8 o' clock this morning 160 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 26 are in ICU.
The head of the HSE says about 70 per cent of people in hospital with Covid were admitted for treatment of the virus.
The government had requested better data around Covid patients, as some people catch the virus in hospital, or may be treated for something else and test positive while in care.
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health we have to continue to drive up vaccination rates as high as possible.
He said the higher we go the better the protection we have and the sooner we’ll be able to ease more of the economic and social restrictions that still remain in place.
