The number of patients with Covid-19 in hospitals has reduced to 412 today, official figures show. It represents a decline of 23 patients on yesterday's figure.
It is the lowest number of hospitalised patients with the disease reported since late December. There are 36 patients receiving treatment in intensive care.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1,149 PCR-confirmed cases, while 1,221 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
In Northern Ireland, the deaths of two further patients who had previously tested positive for Covid-19 have been reported. The Department of Health has also notified another 355 positive cases of the virus in the last 24-hour period.