Last week 2,178 students and staff underwent testing for Covid-19 at 115 schools around the country with 38 cases detected, which is 1.7% of all tested.
These latest figures from the Health Service Executive bring to 23,346 the total number of children and workers tested in 833 schools since early September.
It brings to 538 the total number of cases detected as a result of school testing. This is an overall positivity rate of 2.3%.
This schools' data does not include the 'index case', which is the previously identified case that would have given rise to the need to test close contacts in a school.