The head of the Health Service Executive has said the health service is facing a "very difficult situation and an extraordinary national crisis" as it deals with a rapidly increasing number of Covid-19 cases.
1,022 people are in hospital with 95 of the patients in intensive care units. There are 20 adult ICU beds available in the system.
Speaking at a HSE media briefing in Dublin, Chief Executive Paul Reid said: "In the last 24 hours we have reached a milestone that has to be call to arms to the public to support the health service in the coming weeks and months" He said 15,314 vaccines have been administered to date and inoculations have been delivered across the seven hospital groups at 35 locations.