Two hospitals serving the Shannonside region are treating the highest number of Covid patients in the country.
Galway University Hospital is currently treating 32 patients with Coronavirus - with 23 people with Covid admitted at Sligo University hospital as of 8pm last night.
318 people with Covid-19 are being treated in hospital, a jump of over 100 patients in two weeks.
The total has increased by 21 per cent since last Monday, owing to a big jump in admissions between Saturday and yesterday.
60 Covid patients are in intensive care - the highest figure since early April.
Locally, 32 people are being treated at Galway university hospital- the highest in the country after 17 people presented with Covid in the space of 24 hours.
As of 8pm last night, 23 people were being treated at Sligo University hospital for coronavirus, with 16 people at Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda.
11 people in Tullamore, 9 in Cavan and seven in Mullingar are also all being treated for the effects of Covid 19.
Sligo and Drogheda are the only two hospitals locally with no space left in their ICU for any additional patients.]
