The number of Covid-19 patients being treated in hospital is continuing to fall. There are 258 patients currently hospitalised with coronavirus, of which 35 are in ICU.
This is around a quarter below the recent peak of 341 reached at the end of last month. There were 12 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
However, the number of deaths related to the virus notified so far this month is now 62 after seven more deaths were announced yesterday.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, has urged people not to drop their guard against the spread of the disease. "If we can keep up high levels of compliance, we can get to where we need to be on 1 December," he said.