Some 500 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed by the Department of Health today.
This brings the total number of cases to 6, 574 in Ireland.
Dublin has the highest number of cases at 3557 (55%), followed by Cork with 472 cases (7%).
Sadly a further 28 people have died of COVID-19 as the death toll stands at 263.
22 people were from the east of the country, while two were in the north west, two in the south, and two in the west.
The patients included 15 females and 13 males.
And the median age of today's reported deaths is 84.
Some 19 of those who died were reported as having underlying health issues.
Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer of the Department of Health said: "The virus is still sustaining itself in our community. If we do not stay at home and practice physical distancing then we are not stopping the spread.
"It is crucial that each of us take seriously the risks this virus poses, follows the guidelines and limit the opportunity for this virus to spread.
"Stay at home, practice physical distancing, practice hand hygiene, protect each other."
The growth rate has gone down from 33% daily in the early weeks of the outbreak to just 9% this week.
The number of people, on average, that someone with COVID 19 is likely to infect was high at the beginning of the outbreak at 4.5.
The ‘R’ (reproduction) number has reduced very significantly.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group (IEMAG) said: “When an R number increases by even a fraction above 1, the number of new cases per day will rise, slowly but inexorably.
“We are at a very delicate and critical point in our response to this pandemic.”
Today's data from the HPSC as of midnight Tuesday APril 7 reveals:
- 45% are male and 53% female, with 317 clusters involving 1,391 cases
- The median age of confirmed cases is 48 years
- 1,521 cases have been hospitalised and of those, 230 have been admitted to ICU
- 1,765 cases are associated with healthcare workers
- Of those for whom transmission status is known, community transmission accounts for 66%, close contact accounts for 24%, travel abroad accounts for 9%
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