The Department of Health has been notified of 1,058 PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19, while 1,188 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal yesterday.
The number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 rose to 535 today from 520 yesterday, an increase of 15, with 43 of those patients in intensive care units, the same number as yesterday.
Despite the increase in hospital cases, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland has said Ireland appears to be coming to the predicted end of the latest Covid-19 wave.
Professor Philip Nolan, a member of the National Public Health Emergency Team and Chairperson of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said that while we may see the emergence of new and more transmissible variants of Covid-19, but vaccines should offer high levels of protection and there are high levels of immunity in the population.